It didn’t just start: genealogy of resentment & self-righteousness by Nicolás Boullosa on March 6, 2024 From frustration to self-righteousness: here’s a look at the genealogy of resentment in the so-called Culture Wars —and what youth …
Being bored is not idleness, can be good for you (& your kids) by Nicolás Boullosa on June 21, 2023 On September 11, 2022, we received an email through the site’s contact form. It was short and concise. Signed by …
Purpose & meaning in life: why we all need our own Moby Dick by Nicolás Boullosa on June 14, 2023 Having a purpose or a life aim, one that we can more on less picture ahead of us, is crucial …
Self-discovery & risk-taking in today’s teens: nature/nurture by Nicolás Boullosa on January 26, 2023 In The Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz grasped in a few lines the true meaning of …
Finding meaning in postmodernity: the forgotten Aldous Huxley by Nicolás Boullosa on September 26, 2022 To each generation, its monsters. With his novella The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka explained more about early-twentieth-century angst than any historian …
Simone Weil fought alienation with humanism, overcame angst by Nicolás Boullosa on January 13, 2022 She was frail, opinionated, stubborn, short-sighted, and prone to get sick. Coming from an urban, intellectual family, she also excelled …
Life high in the mountains, primitivism & simple living by Nicolás Boullosa on November 3, 2021 In 1905, a 24-year-old artist who had decided to leave Barcelona for Paris at the turn of the century in …
“Freedom to” vs “freedom from”: why our attitude determines fate by Nicolás Boullosa on October 5, 2021 This is not a shortlist of to-do things to be free, but we wish there was a way to rationalize …
