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On Man, Beliefs and Change

El hombre: fe y transformación

John Gray

¿As human beings, what can we do to transform the world? Whatever human beings do changes the world. The question is whether projects which are formulated to change the world…

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On Alternatives to Idealism

Alternativas contra el idealismo

Roger Scruton

You being the realist against the idealism of Alain Badiou, don’t you think the world needs a bit of idealism? No, I think it needs a bit less idealism. The…

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Silicon Valley Solutionism

El “solucionismo”de Silicon Valley

Evgeny Morozov

I come from Belarus. This is where I grew up. I spent the first seventeen years of my life living there. I come also not from the capital, but from…

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The Dangers of Totalitarianism

El peligro del totalitarismo

Agnes Heller

To you, what were the most important subjects in the symposium? I listened to the second session. And I think three very important questions were asked. The first question, which…

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How Do We Change The World? A Conversation with Rob Riemen

¿Cómo cambiar el mundo? Una conversación con Rob Riemen

Rose Mary Salum

Toward the end of 2012, the Nexus Instituut organized a series of conferences where prominent international speakers discussed the question How To Change the World? Due to the importance of…

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Dos formas de pensar Siria

George Packer

Este artículo fue originalmente publicado en The New Yorker Traducción de Rose Mary Salum Así que parece que vamos a bombardear a Assad. Qué bueno. ¿De verdad? ¿Por qué es…

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China Rising

El ascenso de China

Jon Huntsman

Goldman Sachs predicts that the United States will be replaced as the largest economy by 2027, whereas the World Bank projects said transition will take place in 2020, positioning China…

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Monetarismo versus keynesianismo ¿Cómo llegamos a ser neoliberales?

Michael W. Clune

Traducción al español de David Medina Portillo Al inicio de los años setenta los gobiernos occidentales, el mundo académico y los medios de comunicación entendían las relaciones entre el Estado…

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Borking Antitrust: Google Secures Its Monopoly

Google asegura su monopolio

Frank Pasquale & Siva Vaidhyanathan

Borking Antitrust: Google Secures Its Monopoly Frank Pasquale, Siva Vaidhyanathan When Robert Bork passed away last month his obituaries focused on his contentious Supreme Court nomination and his role in…

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La realidad financiera de la Unión Europea. Mentiras del crecimiento económico infinito

Franco Berardi Bifo

¿De dónde viene Europa? ¿Dónde nació la realidad política, cultural e histórica de la Unión Europea? La Europa de hoy nació tras la guerra como un intento de cancelar el…

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Transhumanism; Nick Bostrom and David Pearce Talk to Andrés Lomeña

Transhumanismo; Nick Bostrom y David Pearce conversan con Andrés Lomeña

Andrés Lomeña

Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Programme on the Impacts of Future…

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Twilight of the Elites

El ocaso de las élites

Christopher Hayes

In the midst of all the recent scandals affecting the global banking system, journalist Christopher Hayes (Editor-in-Chief of The Nation) talks about his most recent book, Twilight of the Elites:…