YEAR III  ·  No. 638  ·  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026

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The archive as memory

A journalistic archive is only worth something if no one can edit it afterward. Here there is no quiet cleanup, no silent deletion of inconvenient articles, every published text remains exactly as it appeared on the day it was published, with its date, its byline and its content intact. The temptation to correct the past is constant in any newsroom, a fact that ages badly, a source that later turns out less solid than expected, a phrasing that is uncomfortable today. Resisting that temptation is part of the method, not an accident.

This space gathers everything published, organised by year and month, with no later curation and no editorial hierarchy imposed after the fact. No article is permanently featured, no piece is hidden because it no longer suits. The order is chronological, mechanical, indifferent to what each text came to mean afterward for the reputation of whoever wrote it or whoever appears in it. A publication that erases its own record has no authority to demand memory from anyone else.

Nine months after an article is published, it is still there, with the same date, the same headline and the same byline, accessible just as easily as the day it went up. No need to request a copy or write to anyone to consult it. That permanent availability is itself a form of accountability, a publication cannot point the finger at others if it is not willing to leave its own texts open to scrutiny indefinitely.

April 2026 18 articles
30 ESSAY Schopenhauer, or How Loving Is Obeying the Species and Calling It Freedom 29 INVESTIGATION The Narco Gospel, or How Organised Crime Infiltrated Evangelical Churches Across Latin America 28 ESSAY The animal we never chose and never managed to do without 27 ESSAY In 1886, Tolstoy Described a Man Who Did Everything Right and Never Really Lived. Today That Man Has a Hundred Million Followers 24 INVESTIGATION Palantir’s technological republic: a contract dressed up as philosophy 23 INVESTIGATION What Happens When the Publisher Refuses: Bolloré and the End of Editorial Independence in France 22 ESSAY The fury governing our world was already in the Iliad, and Homer knew how it ends 21 ESSAY Aimé Césaire and the moral laboratory Europe exported before importing its consequences 20 ESSAY Rosa Parks, or the day refusing to give up a seat changed the mechanics of power 17 ESSAY The Autumn of the Patriarch: How to Read Trump, Bukele and Orbán with a 1975 Novel 16 ESSAY Varlam Shalamov and the Model the Twenty-First Century Inherited from the Gulag 15 ESSAY Metropolis Was Not a Prophecy. It Was a Diagnosis 13 ESSAY Colombia on the Couch: a Psychological Portrait of a Joy That Hurts 06 ESSAY The Borrowed Language as Class Marker and Promise of Empty Modernity 04 ESSAY The Catholic Church and the Long Plunder of Latin America 03 INVESTIGATION How AI Agents Eliminate Jobs Without Their Holders Knowing 02 ESSAY The Disappearance of Space and Time, or Why No New Musical Genres Are Born 01 ESSAY Lorca in the Algorithm, or Perfect Authenticity is a Market Forgery