Tags: Society

Monetized Innocence

When scrolling through TikTok, I occasionally come across videos of children, ranging in age from newborns to 8 years old, making adorable gestures. These...

We Live in a Meritocracy (For Straight White Men)

The global percentage of women in parliaments is 26.4%. In the Fortune 100 list, 79.4% of directors are white. People in the LGBTQI+ community...

Meritocracy and Elitism – Reflections After Listening to the Homonymous Panel at the Segovia Hay Festival (1)

Sunday the 18th of September was the last day of the 2022 Segovia Hay Festival, a world-leading art and literature festival organised along the...

Are Democratic Values at Risk? – HAY Festival Especial

A couple of weeks ago, Segovia’s streets swell with visitors attending the HAY Festival, an event that gathers diverse perspectives to discuss current issues...

Are We Fundamentally Evil?

In the past 100 years, we’ve committed nine out of ten of the most deadly genocides, killing tens of millions of people. During that...

Miquel Barceló conversa con el arte en Segovia

Segovia, diecisiete de septiembre. Una fila se extiende hasta el Aula Magna y las conversaciones se entremezclan en un bullicio calmado, aunque entusiasta. Llega...

We’re Heading Towards a Future of Mass Disease

The Plague of Justinian began in 541 AD and ended the following year. During that time, it claimed 50 million lives and killed up...

Democracies With a High Fever

We are living a historical moment in which democracy is not in good health; democratic systems are suffering from a high fever. In America...

The Age of Short-Term Grief

A repetitive, thumping alarm breaks you into consciousness. You stretch your hand to the blinding white light from your phone screen. In the first...

Andrew Tate: The Loser in a Progressive World

Every time there is progress, there is pushback against it. This pattern has repeated itself throughout history, and the last couple of months have...

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Are We Still Trying to Make America Great Again?

The situation is scary, and the only thing that American citizens can do to prevent it is to vote. Reluctantly, and for the lesser of two evils, they have to cast their ballots. As for the rest of us, we will have to sit back, watch, and hope that the situation that all of us remember from our childhoods does not repeat itself. This time around, there will be no jolly ranchers or playground conversations to envelope our ignorance. This time, we will live through it as adults.

The Global Podcast Era

Since 2020, podcasts have grown to become one of the major sources of entertainment for most people. From leisure to news to wellness and...

Las leyes de la guerra y su moralidad

La guerra no es solo una serie de acciones tácticas y estratégicas; es un terreno donde la moral y la ley se entrecruzan de maneras complejas y dolorosas.