Present Chronicles

Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls...

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information, and consumption. What used to be the Other is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. This...

A virus is not human, but how you react to it is a measure of humanity. The United States has not fared well. Hundreds of thousands of its citizens have died needlessly. America is supposed to be the land of freedom, but disease and...

After the death of God and the dismemberment of utopias, our time seems to be thrown into uncertainty. Many of the intellectual efforts today are aimed at finding a common framework on which to base acts and speeches. And history shows us that we...

At a time when European citizens are increasingly detached from their political representatives while uncertainties are growing, Tzvetan Todorov makes us discover or rediscover figures who, each in their own way, have managed to reconcile moral demands and public action. They lived in different...

This book denounces that the dangers that lie in wait for Western democracies are not so much external, as we have been led to believe by invoking Islamist terrorism, religious extremism, or dictatorial regimes, but internal. Thus, the enemy is within us. Todorov calls...

In this letter-style work, Girauta warns us against the current forms of sentimental and ideological manipulation. Briefly, he explains how the left wing has become cultural hegemony. Understanding it requires an approach to post-Marxism. Specifically, to the linking of apparently independent causes or struggles....

More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide―and describe―the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades...

The most overtly political novel Nabokov ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor...

For some decades now, the development of cybernetic machines has brought with it the elimination of millions of jobs in the areas of production and services, to the point that many economists estimate that there will never be a return to a full-employment society....

This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth. In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep....

When Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets of Portland by antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who'd been following Ngo's reporting in outlets like the New York Post and Quillette knew that the...

To see or to be seen? That is the question this book poses. Before seeing a monument, tasting a delicacy or hugging our beloved ones, we need to immortalize them in that great Showcase Life that social networks are. A lifestyle rooted in our...

QAnon, Pizzagate, Plandemic, Agartha,... are some of the conspiracies that have been appearing on the social networks in recent years. This work analyzes and explains them in all their dimensions, revealing all the nuances of one of the most surprising social phenomena of the...

In a troubled world of climate emergencies, addictive technologies, radical politics, cultural conflicts, vertiginous consumption and news that confuses us, we need to stop and think. This book tells us about a great forgotten virtue, the virtue of thinking. It directly addresses what it...

This book raises the problem of the weakening of the public ethics of our civilization from the perspective of the human being, oriented towards two aspects: The devaluation of the right to life and its close values, as well as the invasion of the...

In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who...

In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb shares about the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she’s never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars—the “bang-bang” war and the story of how the people...

Byung-Chul Han continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. Han elaborates a framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology...

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer in the world, most of us feel...