Posts Tagged ‘Trump’
A hint of cosmopolitanism
Perhaps the next great revolution in the history of mankind will no longer happen in a country (as in Russia in 1917 or in France in 1789), but throughout the world and be the result of the coordination of actions of millions of people.
Read MoreHumboldt vs. Trump
In times of egos enlarged by social media, such as Trump’s, we lack the cosmic vision of Humboldt, where everything is interconnected.
Read MoreTrampling on rights by judicial order: the risks of presidential appointments of judges in a personalist era
Since Trump ascended to the seat of Lincoln, political personalism has taken over the most powerful nation in the world. Now with the selection of the ultraconservative Neil Gorsuch as nominee to the Supreme Court, the politicization of justice is sharpened, and so is the scrutiny of the system to designate judges to the high courts. Read the…
Read MoreThe barbarians
Human groups have the tribal tendency to deny the humanity of anyone who belongs to a different culture.
Read MoreInternational order is threatened
The
first days of the new U.S. government have produced commotion around the world.
Trump’s inauguration
The idea of “inauguration” of a new political era rather than a presidential period seems to be more appropriate.
Read MoreThe new world disorder
There are two ways to read the global moment that begins today with Trump as president. The possibility that it is a periodic oscillation of the political pendulum, within the basic contours of the current world order since 1945.
Read MoreOf espionage and bullying
Two intelligence reports that entangle Donald Trump with the Russians have just been published: the Russian hacking against Hillary Clinton and the espionage against Trump from the Kremlin. Both reports have different origins and credibility, but once again, they reflect the black clouds threatening the neighborhood.
Read MoreA school without walls of intolerance
These new times really require us to listen to others who are radically different from us and try to understand their reasons, their beliefs and their life stories.
Read MoreAnticlimatic Trump
Trump’s electoral victory is anticlimatic in two ways, as I explained in another op-ed for Semana Sostenible.
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