In the last essay we established that in the ideology of liberal democracy resides a paradoxical kernel that struggles to compromise individual rights and collective good. The individual rights fundamental Read more…
Liberty has been the buzzword for the last centuries. Throughout this time, we have neither managed to achieve it, nor rid ourselves of it. Whenever we attempt to go in Read more…
[English version available] Meta nħares lejn kif nagħtu nkoraġġiment lit-tfal, tolqotni b’mod partikolari l-kelma ‘Bravu’ jew ‘Brava’, li nużaw bħala titlu li suppost jirregala lit-tfal b’ċertu sens ta’ validament. Read more…
What does it take to be different? To make a statement about yourself, and to show clearly and beyond a doubt that you are special? The answer is easily found Read more…
It’s not really my thing to write film reviews, in spite of how much I enjoy the provocation of thoughts by movies, particularly the (relatively) low-budget independent ones. However, when Read more…
There’s quite the tendency for any right that society grants its members, to soon become a duty. It is one’s duty to attend school, to vote, to be healthy… What Read more…
In past decades we have undergone a ‘revolution’ – for want of a better word – of emotional rediscovery. Its main chant has been a reaction against the stereotypical emotionally-unavailable Read more…
While face masks have become emblematic of the past two years and the symbol of restrictions, their casual improper donning around the chin has also marked the growing restriction fatigue. Read more…
The relatively recent rise of cryptocurrency, championed by Bitcoin, is intimately bound to the alluring promise that one may conduct investment without the manipulation of banks. The main selling point Read more…
Looking at a busy bee, toiling hard and fast… as fast as my clock turns during a day of doing nothing. A day wasted, I’m first inclined to say. But Read more…
In the last post we explored the phenomenon by which social revolutions re-establish the old injustices they sought to eliminate. Its Sisyphean nature is due to none other than a Read more…
One particular social symptom which is hard not to notice is the trend of millennial couples adopting dogs and cats and ‘raising them as their own’. I admit, this fetish Read more…
An American Oedipus Imagine Oedipus after having plucked his eyes out from their sockets. He is now blind, lacking the important ability of sight, a tragic end to the story. Read more…
[English version available] Nhar it-Tnejn li għadda, il-Ministru responsabbli għall-arti u l-kultura żelqulu xi ftit kelmiet li ma niżlux tajjeb. Meta mistoqsi dwar in-nuqqas ta’ miżuri li l-gvern ħa Read more…
As the debate on gender representation rages on, we are going through the healthy reflection that some parts of society might be less represented at high-level governance. And for various Read more…
In the past five years, Malta has witnessed a wildfire of corruption revelations – from money laundering to outright assassination. On the one hand, there remains a total absence of Read more…