Cynicism is not only the refuge of those who don’t have imagination to change the world, and who usually do nothing.  It is also a tool from the extreme right […]

The toll taken by the Corona Virus on human life and on livelihoods is enormous. It is difficult to find a silver lining in such terrible events. But the virus […]

One of the reasons for the success of capitalism in liberal democracies (i.e. ‘successful’ from the point of view of capitalists) was the protection to property and entrepreneurialism that liberal […]

For those who don’t grasp what’s going on in Chile, a few notes.  Chile was one of the first “laboratories” of new-liberalism in the world. Most policies heralded by the […]

Ontem li na timeline de uma amiga o comentário de um bolsonarista ao seu post (acima, na imagem). Em suma, o sujeito dizia que se ela não estava contente com […]

Sometimes, people have utterly different values from ours. As a teacher, I try to detach myself from my students’ values and try to understand them dispassionately and fairly. But in […]