Eighty years of ‘Animal Farm’: Why we keep reading Orwell
The British writer was satirizing Stalinism in his novel, but the story is a warning against any form of totalitarianism and a defense of independence, intelligence and, above all, humanity
Adolescent capuchins kidnap the offspring of howler monkeys out of boredom
The behavior, which ends with the death of the young, was initiated by a young primate and imitated by others
Don’t underestimate juicy gossip: How rumors have dodged classism to conquer culture
The power of so-called ‘idle talk’ has been revindicated in literature, essay and podcast as a subversive tool
Lyndsey Stonebridge, historian: ‘What’s new about the migrant crisis is the brutality of our response’
EL PAÍS spoke with the British professor, an expert in human rights and refugee studies. In her latest book, she analyzes the lessons that philosopher Hannah Arendt left us
Hannah Arendt, friendship in the face of totalitarianism
The German thinker went into exile in the United States after the Nazis took power. She went from theorizing about the absolute evil of dictatorships to reflecting on the banality of those who worked for them. Today, she could have written about the limitless power of technology