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The sad times of Ayn Rand
“There’s a method to his madness” Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Perhaps what this elitist lacked was a bit of homework.
The lasting influence of Schopenhauer
July 4, 2012
In times when life is easy, the economy looks buoyant and the future seems to be rosy, the media use to spread the work of thinkers confident in the power of reason and spiritual values. On the contrary, in times of crisis, when politicians and economists turn to be cynical and show their lack of […]
Christopher Hitchens and the “New Atheism”
December 18, 2011
The death of Hitchens stirred a handful of pro and con commentaries, which suits well the style of his own interventions in political and cultural matters. Two of his traits seem to gather coincidence: the quality of his English writing (which I’m not able to judge) and the integrity of his adherence to his atheism […]
The Hope is gone, but OWS is coming
November 17, 2011
When I was asked to illustrate an article about the problems faced by Obama that render him overwhelmed I couldn’t help it but remembered the Time magazine’s cover that shocked me out back in 1978: A few days later, as I started reading a longtime procrastinated book by Harold Bloom (Omen of Millennium, translated into […]
Schopenhauer and my will
September 24, 2010
This year 9-11 was very special for me. I was scheduled for surgery (hernia) for months and wanted to make completion of all the tasks that would not be able to meet later. To my surprise, two weeks before, I had some urgent work proposals from several points of the globe. This meant to do intensive exchange […]
Of myths, heroes and sports
May 28, 2010
Note: This translated version of the originally published in Spanish by the “Rio Negro” daily of Argentina was slightly adapted for non Argentinean readers. The last paragraph became edited for “space needs” and added here. The Media turned the athletes into the mythical heroes of our time, displacing the Great Men with which the secular […]
Kant, Hume, Hobbes
July 22, 2009
Click to enlarge This is my first contribution to the Literary Suplement of Pagina 12 daily in Buenos Aires. The article is a review of a book (in fact, a compilation) about how some writers told the last days of some philosophers.
This work by Roberto Bobrow (a.k.a Bob Row) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at https://bobrow.wordpress.com.
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GLORIA MUNDI 
November 1, 2017
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