The Last Carnival Dance
What is happiness? For much of the West, happiness is living in a society that’s like a massive amusement park—a noisy, colorful world where one can get by by hopping from one digital game to another, always young, …
- Theory of Systems of Government: Analysis of political models (democracies, populisms, autocracies).
- Welfare & Social Policy: Managing common goods, public health, education and reducing inequality.
- Movements & Activism: Grassroots participation, social mobilization and the role of parties.
- Active Citizenship: Citizens’ rights and duties, civic education and the transformation of public space.
Individualism and Human Rights
Contemporary secularism’s attempt to eliminate God from public life has also led to the erasure of the concrete human person from that sphere and his replacement with a legal abstraction that dissolves under analysis and …
Global Public Health Issues
...Bearing in mind that among the most widely accepted definitions of public health are: “The science and art of improving the health of the population through organized societal efforts” (Acheson, 1988; WHO, 2000), but …
The Freedom That Kills
According to Pavel Florensky1, the “fundamental difficulty” of ancient metaphysics lies in how to reconcile unity with multiplicity. Applied to the field of politics, this means figuring out how to integrate the unity of …
With fond memories of Delors
In 1996, UNESCO released the Delors Report “Learning: The Treasure Within” prepared by a commission of experts from various countries (educators, sociologists, political scientists, among others) led by Jacques Delors, …
The Neo-Feudalism to Come
It is highly likely that in the future—with artificial intelligence surpassing and replacing our own, and robots taking our jobs—our lives will be reduced, at least in Western countries, to that of mere consumers of …
The Barren Tree of Democracy
The world is hungry. We hunger for justice and peace. We are born into a state of hunger, cut off from our mother and turned out to a cruel world as orphaned beggars. We are robbed daily of our peace. Our energy and joy …
I want to know if justice is possible…
This famous verse by David Maria Turoldo introduces this brief – and certainly not exhaustive – reflection on ‘justice’, a theme that is often at the heart of debates and demands. Let us ask ourselves what the meaning of …
The relentless cycle of pain
It seems that so-called political realism is in vogue, i.e., that there are no laws or rules to protect us, but that it is only important to know how to navigate the conflictual sea of reality, where nothing but force …
Innocence to be regained
After the Second World War we witnessed the aggregation of local markets into universal markets. This trend was driven by at least two postulates: that the market for all would be the secret formula for success and that …