Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its i….

Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all..

Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of thei….

Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, ….

It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you k….

This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes t….