Opinion
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Ha’Satan & Dualism: Manichaeism as a tool against uncertainty
Painting by Goya titled “ El Aquelarre” 1823 ( the actual painting is bigger than the one presented here) The rejection of phenomena which does not have a place in our empirical knowledge seems to be part of human nature, those things that are weird and we just simply do not know about. Of course,…
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Shaking off EU Doubts: Navigating Euroscepticism through the Lens of the Youth
By: María Miralles i Viu The European parliamentary elections of 2024. Dreaded by some, anticipated by others, but indifferent to the large majority, especially the younger generation. The situation is so desperate that the executive branch of the European Union, the European Commission, went as far as calling on world-known pop star Taylor Swift to…
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Spain on hold: The prize of the presidency
Spain has been without a government since mid-July, and it doesn’t appear that this situation will change in the foreseeable future. There are many factors to highlight, but the three main ones are: How Spain’s current Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez rose to power, the May State and Municipal elections, and the Catalan conflict. Sánchez is…
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Gen Z, “Core-Core”, and Neo-Hedonism: An Exploration
Growing up as an American teenager I bore witness to an intensely irritating barrage of questions from media, and family alike. Questions such as “Why don’t young people want to work? Why is everyone “Quite quitting”? Why are you so depressed?” The answer was obvious to anyone who has grown up in the post-911 world…
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“Expat-ism, Culture and the Inevitable Tide of Consumerism.”
The vat of pasta water boils as wine is opened and passed between my aunts, Silvo’s daughters, and me. Huddled around the table I’m quickly enamored by the fact I’m eating lunch with someone within five years my age and speaking English in this tiny faraway place. As the conversations switch to Italian I tune…
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Does this Op-Ed Pass the Bechdel Test?
Long before it became trendy to splice movie clips together on TikTok based on whether or not they “pass the Bechdel Test”, Virginia Woolf described the following on how women are portrayed in fiction: “All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. … And I…