Portraits not taken: on Vargas Llosa, Pope Francis & Salgado’s gaze by Nicolás Boullosa on April 23, 2025 Three Latin American figures—writer, Pope, and photographer—illuminate a continent’s search for dignity and meaning. Two Latin American giants have died …
When deserts were Edens: the lost children of the Green Sahara by Nicolás Boullosa on April 17, 2025 When the Sahara was green: what a 7,000-year-old skeleton tells us about lost worlds and future climates. When I was …
Blackshirts and hats: the return of Agitprop in the age of memes by Nicolás Boullosa on April 10, 2025 When examining the return of totalitarian symbolism in today’s politics, we have to only ask our teenage sons what messages …
The last artisans: finding meaning in a throwaway world by Nicolás Boullosa on March 26, 2025 If you keep the right attitude and avoid modernity’s prescriptions, you might find people still doing meaningful things. In the …
1948 to 1984: an off-grid farm in the Hebrides & a book to read the future by Nicolás Boullosa on March 19, 2025 How Orwell’s retreat to a remote Scottish island shaped his final book, an allegory of things to come. At 43, …
Soufflé Society: online sentiment & the crumbling consensus by Nicolás Boullosa on March 12, 2025 The soufflé of sentiment rises quickly online, but only the bread of community sustains. There are many readings about the …
Manga to “Kei” minicars: Japan’s cultural influence as the country’s power wanes by Nicolás Boullosa on March 5, 2025 As Japan’s weight wanes in the world, one of its cultural idiosyncrasies, kei tiny cars and trucks, get a following …
Art of walking: a stroll in a warehouse & Bay Area’s “French village” by Nicolás Boullosa on February 27, 2025 Pushed to the extreme, a mentality based on pure utility can risk missing the little things that make one’s days …
House in a hamlet: restoration, regeneration, and layers of a home by Nicolás Boullosa on February 20, 2025 When you tend a garden or you have a project of a house in your hands, your world opens up …
Free speech-palooza & kids’ media access: when banalization gets pervasive by Nicolás Boullosa on February 12, 2025 When free speech becomes a game of provocation, kids learn that clout beats character—and history gets rewritten in the process. …
