Sunday, 22 May 2022
Remember me
The great tragedy of the Australian bushfires -- that even after several months are still consuming huge parts of the country -- is that so much of the destruction is entirely avoidable.How can this be?...
In the last chapter of his 1983 essay on The Crusades as seen by the Arabs, Amin Maalouf, the French-Lebanese author, provided a beautifully succinct illustration of institutions’ economic role. He quoted...
The United States eh? What to make of ?em? The world?s most advanced country? Some of their conceited propaganda would have us believe so, especially under the current president. And yet the insistence...
In 1914, when my maternal grandmother was a teenager, Britain ruled over 412 million people, who lived on almost one quarter of the world’s surface. In 1969, when I was twelve and she was in her sixties,...
The question may not be asked, but the puzzlement is often etched on faces – why did we choose to live here in The Priorat, a thousand miles from all we knew?It has a great deal to do with cowboys.On...
Can horses feel shame? Do deer grieve for their dead? Why do roosters deceive hens?What about humpback whales that act as if they’re grateful, adulterous magpies or pigs that have learnt their own names?These...
Complex phenomena are more straightforward in their infancy, and social institutions are better understood through examples from the past. For instance, how is elite rule enforced? Thucydides, the Athenian...
The past 12 months might go down in history as a ’selfie’ year; Selfie with a capital ’S’. We take endless photographs of ourselves, our faces, our bodies, our food and our clothes and send them...
Text del art d’en Neil
How I need the rhythm. From listening to my heart, literally finger on pulse when my head begins to bully, to the familiarities, smiles and constancy of Priorat community and nature.I find such comfort...
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