Sublime

The case of Rigoberta Menchú played out for higher stakes. Menchú is a Guatemalan Indian activist whose father, mother, and two brothers all died at the hands of government security forces between 1979 and 1983. Her autobiography, I, Rigoberta Menchú, was published in 1983 and rapidly became a canonical text among students and scholars of

McCarthy, though, was something new in modern political life: a freelance performer who grasped what many ordinary Americans feared and who had direct access to the media of the day. He exploited the privileges of power and prominence without regard to its responsibilities; to him politics was not about the substantive but the sensational. The

The assumption that individual freedoms are guaranteed by freedom of the market and of trade is a cardinal feature of neoliberal thinking, and it has long dominated the US stance towards the rest of the world.7 What the US evidently sought to impose by main force on Iraq was a state apparatus whose fundamental mission was to facilitate conditions

the single most salient feature of the government that we have evolved is not that it discriminates in favor of one side and against the other. The single most salient feature is that it discriminates against all sides to favor itself.

TR’s capacity on some occasions to stand for equality and for openness and in other contexts to argue that it was the destiny of the Anglo-Saxon peoples to rule the world was a particular example of a more universal American inconsistency.

He often spoke of “dear old Adolf” and his SS, who knew what to do with thugs who picked on artists. America was the place, he said, “where honest men were all robbed and bludgeoned by scoundrels.”

Ortega y Gasset, en su vasta obra filosófica, abordó la cuestión de la picaresca española desde una perspectiva crítica y profunda . Para él, la picaresca no era simplemente un género literario o un conjunto de tretas individuales, sino una manifestación de una forma de ser y estar en el mundo, arraigada en la historia y la cultura españolas.

This skewed demography is only now being corrected as nonprofessionals migrate to join families, as economic and/or political refugees; as workers in the transportation, lodging, and other trades; and as small businessmen (running shops, motels, and so on). Ignoring these facts of South Asian America, D’Souza asks, “why can’t an African American be