In Latin America, power often wears the familiar face of the caudillo—charismatic, commanding, and contemptuous of constraint, whether on horseback then or now on your smartphone. Conquistadores, Libertadores, Dictadores—Caudillos. These words name the men who have shaped Latin American politics and history, not through committee meetings but through force, vision, and command. Men of iron …
Ferenc Hörcher is a political philosopher, historian of political thought and philosopher of art. He studied in Budapest (Hungary) and Brussels/Leuven (Belgium). He is director of the Research Institute of Politics and Government at Ludovika - the University of Public Service, in Budapest, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian …
In the last year and a half, and in contrast with my own experience in Poland as a traveler, a student, and an observer of the political reality in a foreign country, I have realized that Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel, Vicomte de Tocqueville and Ernest Che Guevara belong to the same category of thinkers, despite their many …
Ryan Gosling’s role in this new chapter of the sigma mythology is not minor, as he embraces yet another aspect of contemporary male struggle and makes it into a fine performance, showing how male identity struggles for female love and attention and how that natural momentum, at one point used to get the female gaze, …
While courtly love was mostly a literary genre exploited by troubadours and poets such as Dante, in practice, it may have been very well been an actual phenomenon, or at least a cultural aspect strong enough to survive in chivalric traditions still extant to our days, most particularly in England, where the Order of the …
Somehow, the Barbour jacket is a symbol of a certain kind of person with a certain kind of personal politics, halfway between aristocratic and bourgeois, traditionally conservative until life forces its wearer to wear it until broken in manual work (and become populist) or to ditch it for a more appropriate dress style in government …
