EL PENSADOR: LA GRAN MANIOBRA

Curiously – or not, pues tal vez hasta ahora haya sido solo ignorancia mia- all meanings of the words secularism,
secular, laicist or laicize refer to the independence of the State, or of society especially through education, of all ecclesiastical or religious influences. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA GRAN MANIOBRA

EL PENSADOR: ¿Y SI FUERAN LA MISMA COSA?

I wrote this somewhat lengthy article twenty years ago as part of the contributions that the wife of a great friend needs; she aspired to a doctorate at the University of Leuven and required professional opinions on the differences between literature and journalism. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¿Y SI FUERAN LA MISMA COSA?

EL PENSADOR: LA EUTANASIA

Is legalized euthanasia such a complex and problematic issue as the interminable and even unbearable debate that we cannot get out of for decades suggests? Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA EUTANASIA

EL PENSADOR: EL TAMAÑO

Is size important?
It depends, of course, on the size in question. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL TAMAÑO

EL PENSADOR: ALGO ESTA FALLANDO

If one is guided by the predominant journalistic discourse, to which inevitably we must add the very strong trend of politicization – which, in Creole language, that is «those from there, the opposition, against those from here, the government of the day» – A contradiction and the feeling that some mechanism of the State is failing in relation to a relevant issue is obvious. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ALGO ESTA FALLANDO

EL PENSADOR: DESCREDITO PELIGROSO

In these times, when one works as a communicator – be it in some print media, on radio or television, or on social networks – warns that among many of the citizen readers, viewers or listeners, a certain attitude of discomfort towards politics has become habitual, and is growing, which, at times, rises to satiety, to the plain and straightforward rejection and even to the accusation that it contains all the corruption that can be imagined and all the damage that can be done to society. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: DESCREDITO PELIGROSO