Image: Arthouse Studio on PexelsRicardo Pascoe PierceThe contemporary world has become a highly dangerous place. The bipolar Cold War world of communism and capitalism, inaugurated after World War II in 1945, ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union...
Image: Honey Yanibel Minaya Cruz on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceThe United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting was held last week in an atmosphere of global realignments. The leaders' speeches (3 women among men) from multiple countries expressed opinions on common...
Image: Created with AI on MidjourneyJuan VilloroPolitical correctness and the culture of cancellation are gradually bringing modernity closer to the Middle Ages. In Poland, a women's rights activist has just been sentenced to eight months in jail for giving...
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Photo: Muralinath on iStockLuis RubioThomas Carlyle (1795-1881) says, "the True University of these days is a collection of books." Here is my best attempt to share some of the readings that impacted me the most this year.Photo: Robert Scott...