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Who is Cornelius Castoriadis? (Ideas, Humor, and Life)

Cornelius Castoriadis: 130,000 Weeks After Ancient Greece Τhe French intellectual–philosopher, psychoanalyst, and social critic of Greek origin. An intellectual, both of international standing and ‘somewhat marginal’. This article is dedicated to Mr. David Andersson, the French-American editor of Pressenza New…

Conversation with Alicia Foxworth Author of Ghost Writer, an Abolitionist’s Tale

I’m attending the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival after speaking with playwright Alicia Foxworth about her piece Ghost Writer, an Abolitionist’s Tale. BBTF’s 2025 season spotlights four new musicals and eight original plays making their New York debut—works that champion “story,…

My Food Adventure in Denmark and Italy:  Stories of Mistaken Identities

“Let me guess, you are 20.”  The Dane who opened the door said.  The slight, dark-blonde boy who said he was 17 then carried my luggage to the room on the second floor. This new home for me, just outside…

Zohran Mamdani, Violence, and the Establishment’s “Law and Order” Playbook

The recent shootings in Manhattan two weeks ago and Brooklyn this week have reignited the familiar “law and order” drumbeat in New York politics. Predictably, establishment voices—Mayor Eric Adams, former governor Andrew Cuomo, and their allies in big media—have rushed…

The Cost of Reality in the Psyche of a Conscious Journalist

It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once…

Chile and the national green hydrogen company (part II)

The future is not in pipes; it is in sovereignty. And Chile has yet to take control. How much is green hydrogen worth and who controls it? Green hydrogen is not just an energy solution. It is a global financial…

Putin–Trump Summit This Friday: Final Details and Preparations at Alaska’s Joint Military Base

For a few seconds, my imagination staged a surreal scene: a gray, fortified building in the middle of the ice, with the flags of Russia and the United States flying side by side, as if the Cold War had ended…

The Danger of Any Supremacism

This article examines supremacism as a transhistorical technology of power, breaking down its operating mechanisms, its institutional translation, and its consequences for human coexistence. It argues that supremacism, far from being a marginal phenomenon, is a recurring pattern that manifests…

If We Build It, They Will Come: Global Citizens Shaping the Future

The upcoming Global Citizen Festival in New York City, scheduled for Saturday, September 27, 2025, on Central Park’s Great Lawn, offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the notion of global citizenship. Whether we like it or not, we are…

The post-human rights era: Gaza as the epitaph of a collapsed architecture

There are ruins that are not only the end of a building but also the beginning of a new era. At this historical moment, the smoking ruins of Gaza are not evidence of a war but the epitaph of the…

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