Despite the metal detectors, x-ray machines, and guards at the security checkpoints, the Library of Congress still feels to me… Read more A Temple of Knowledge
Category: Essay
From Hollywood to Capitol Hill
28 August, 2010. I look out the window before my airplane lands in Dulles airport, and there it stands: Washington… Read more From Hollywood to Capitol Hill
Memorializing Lincoln & MLK
Lincoln’s figure sits at a throne within a shrine because there’s no better way to honor a president that adapted… Read more Memorializing Lincoln & MLK
Describing a Rose to a Blind Man
Beauty can go beyond sight. For the rose, the first thing to surpass this limit is its scent, a misty… Read more Describing a Rose to a Blind Man
Anti-Heroism: Sinners & Not-So-Saints
We live in a “transitional state, where the masses no longer trust the elites and are confused about their values.”[1]… Read more Anti-Heroism: Sinners & Not-So-Saints
Hugh Hefner: The Playboy
(co-authored with Dalya Munves, April 2010) Between the restraints of the Flying Forties and the liberality of the Swinging Sixties,… Read more Hugh Hefner: The Playboy
On Barbarism
History is marked by greatness. Ages and periods are coined according to great individuals, great inventions, great ideas, great… Read more On Barbarism
Globalization: Capital Rules
Socialism is not dead, and capitalism is not dying—these two just merged and mutated (not evolved, since evolution implies betterment)… Read more Globalization: Capital Rules
Translating Machado
Literary translation (specially the translation of poetry) has proven to be more than merely transcribing words from one language to… Read more Translating Machado
Live Once and Again
Ever heard the phrase “you see your life flash before your eyes when you’re about to die”? Well, let me… Read more Live Once and Again
Alex Garcia Topete 
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