Literature is a mystery, just like art or music, and in the early 20th century, Kafka stands at the very heart of that mystery. Last Monday marked the hundredth anniversary of his premature death in Kierling, Austria. Today, we interpret him as one of the seismographs...
This long conversation between Bishop Erik Varden and Daniel Capó has been published, in its Spanish translation, in the February issue of Ecclesia magazine. In a recent gathering in Madrid, you recalled that old adage from the Desert Fathers, attributed to Saint...
If the wise Chesterton once argued that hate unites societies more than love, perhaps it can also be said that resentment defines our character as much, if not more, than our desires. Tell me what or whom you hate, and I will tell you who you are and how you think....
This Sunday, on the occasion of the death of Pope Benedict, the German novelist Martin Mosebach wrote a beautiful reflection in Die Welt. He identifies a key fact which permits us to understand a thread that united Joseph Ratzinger with the faith he professed: ‘On...
Several years ago I took my family on a tour of the US northeast with two American friends. One summer day we traveled north from Washington D.C. to Cape Henlopen a wooded State Park on the Delaware seashore. There, a ferry was to take us across the bay to New Jersey...
Diego S. Garrocho reminded us in the pages of ABC that "almost all geniuses have some sadness". And of tragedy, I would add, which is the continuous bass of the creator: the music that imposes itself even in spite of the apparent joy of its lyrics. Here, I call...
The return of History has also meant the return of the United States to the European stage. Without America's self-absorption, and without its previous withdrawal that left behind a power vacuum, Europe would not have fallen -once again- into war. Bruno Maçaes has...
Your biography is the story of a conversion born from contact with suffering - the encounter you had as a child with a tortured man during World War II - and also with beauty - Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony that you heard in your adolescence. Why did ethics and...
The brilliant columnist of The New York Times, Ross Douthat (1979), has just published a fascinating essay, entitled in Spanish La sociedad decadente. Cómo nos hemos convertido en víctimas de nuestro propio éxito (Editorial Ariel). Far from falling into the temptation...
Arias Maldonado has published Desde las ruinas del futuro. Teoría política de la pandemia (From the Ruins of the Future. Political Theory of the Pandemic), a dialogue for all seasons between the modern Enlightenment and the ancient plague, between the confidence...
After Joe Biden’s victory in the American presidential elections, the concession speech John McCain gave after he was defeated by Obama in the 2008 campaign has gone viral. As Biden’s close friend and rival, the Republican senator stood for forty years as the figure...
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