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Páramos y promesas


Hace poco me conseguí un libro de Hanna Arendt, con el buen título de
La promesa de la política. Pero ese título, al cabo de un rato, no pudo dejar de recordarme lo que famosamente dijo Stendhal: que la belleza no es sino una “promesa de felicidad”. El inmediato contenido erótico de dicha promesa puede, con todo, desviarse a otros campos, ya sean sociales (el bien común), artístico comunales (las catedrales, las cerámicas, los tejidos) o personales ante la consecución de una obra. Otra variación del aserto stendhaliano se encuentra en Proust, para quien Venecia era una ....

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How Should the Citizens of Hong Kong Prepare for Dictatorship?


Thus, the population was shaken up, forced into silence, and left without any possible leaders of resistance. So it was that ‘wisdom’ was instilled, that former ties and friendships were cut off.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
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Can moral life survive dictatorship? When a government intimidates its subjects; when it sows mistrust among them; when it penalizes virtue and incentivizes servility, how might men and women keep faith with themselves and their fellows? Citizens of democratic states tend to ponder such questions, if at all, with a detached, even theoretical, interest. Dictatorships happened then or, if extant, occur over there. But in the once-free city of Hong Kong such insouciance has vanished. ....

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Daily Kickoff: Questions for Tony Blinken today + The spies who prevented the Nazis from reaching Palestine


Good Tuesday morning!
A number of Senate committees will hold confirmation hearings today for several of President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet picks.
Janet Yellen, Avril Haines and Alejandro Mayorkas will testify in front of Senate committees this morning, while Tony Blinken and Lloyd Austin are scheduled to appear before the Foreign Relations and the Armed Services Committees, respectively, this afternoon. More below.
A report in 
Politico indicates that Biden’s transition team is alarmed about the number of Trump appointees “burrowing into career positions throughout the federal government.”
Biden has selected Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be assistant secretary of health. If approved, Levine would be the first openly transgender official confirmed by the Senate. ....

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