From Woodstock, VT to Concord, MA: the birth of (one idea of) a nation by Nicolás Boullosa on June 18, 2024 As a heatwave pummels the eastern US, here’s a fresh view of our impressions of visiting some charming cities and …
Post-rumination: how a writer & a songwriter overcame depression by Nicolás Boullosa on September 20, 2023 Less known than the current enfant terrible of French literature Michel Houellebecq, writer Emmanuel Carrère published an engaging yet painful …
Acorns: why we failed to domesticate a beloved wild food source by Nicolás Boullosa on June 2, 2023 There’s no older way of showing one’s agency over one’s surroundings than providing our own food from sources that our …
Finding a purpose in today’s world: Elias from “Märzengrund” by Nicolás Boullosa on January 15, 2023 Some people turn away from the doctrines of a profit-oriented society and decide to live a simpler life in tune …
Simplicity: lives dedicated to focusing on the fundamentals by Nicolás Boullosa on May 18, 2022 “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, …
Slow architecture: houses that understand people and place by Nicolás Boullosa on May 11, 2022 Idleness and boredom are a type of lucidity experienced by those brave enough to confront themselves instead of filling their …
Contextuality: the intricate bonds between things big & small by Nicolás Boullosa on April 6, 2022 German writer Hermann Hesse introduces Siddhartha to the reader as the son of a brahmin called to inherit his father’s …
“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 …
Montañas y glaciares como puerta al pensamiento a largo plazo by Nicolás Boullosa on March 17, 2021 El filósofo noruego Arne Naess, un hombre sencillo y franco como el personaje de una novela de Per Petterson o …
Otros tiempos difíciles: Bertrand Russell y Antonio Gramsci by Nicolás Boullosa on December 9, 2020 Creemos que la situación que afrontamos hoy es tan cruda y falta de esperanza que hemos olvidado la sana lucidez …
