Going back over old readings of philosophers from different times -Bacon, Kingsley, Huxley, Russell- I have noticed the antiquity of a problem that Uruguayan society suffers today and that I, perhaps confused by the speed, sound and little thinking of the modern world, I had believed something installed from the democratic restoration after the dictatorship. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA POLÍTICA MITÓMANA
Hoy es habitual que se defina, sobre todo entre entendidos, a una serie de grabaciones de un disco como un “álbum conceptual”. Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: EL ALBUM CONCEPTUAL
There are many citizens – I know – who have been surprised by information that has been circulating in recent days: according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, based on data from the OAS Inter-American Observatory on Drugs, Uruguay is the country with the highest Per capita consumption of cocaine in Latin America. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: OPINIONES OLVIDADAS
Historias apasionantes, hasta dislocadas, sobre cualquier tango tal vez hoy perdido en una oquedad de la memoria pero que mucho tiene que ver con la identidad cultural rioplatense. Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: TRES ESQUINAS
In the previous column I tried to describe, as succinctly as I could, the number of unsatisfied needs that our society exhibits, suggesting that political consensus is as necessary as an increase in investment from abroad. And I remember that I also referred to the importance of education and my pessimism that, in reasonable time, its reform will become the effective solution to the problems we face. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EDUCACIÓN Y POLÍTICA
Una mañana neoyorquina, en el hall de un lujoso hotel, se oyó su rudo vozarrón de granos de arena: -¡Díganle a ese viejo maniático que si quiere tango a las diez de la mañana, que lo baile él! Si me quiere ver, que vaya al teatro… Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: EL TROMPO GORDO
