Among the powerful, there is open talk of defeating aging. Stopping the clock to reinforce established hierarchies and living as if life itself had no biological limits. The will to exist in capital letters, to never leave, the self taken to the extreme that defies even death. This is the context. The conversation between Xi and Putin, captured in Tiananmen Square by an open microphone, in which they were encouraged to live forever, or at least one hundred and fifty years, through organ transplants. Reality increasingly resembles a dystopian B-movie. But the megalomania associated with longevity—a euphemism often used to avoid saying immortalityLongevity is not exclusive to autocrats, but a distinctive status symbol that is beginning to outweigh money among the rich and powerful everywhere. This longevity is clearly not purchased to make selfless contributions to society, but rather, in most cases, serves to continue enjoying the adrenaline rush of power, fame, and victory over all others. sine die at the top of the pyramid.

"The extreme right represents the reaction against a left woke which has perhaps gone too far." This commonplace is not normally used to introduce a debate about the Left and the challenges it faces, such as reconciling the defense of individual identities and universality, or like the debate around the uncritical importation of concepts from an Anglo-Saxon postmodernism that feels a lack of the complexity of the complexity of complexity. made by the thick beak of the contemporary Left that consolidates a powerful idea instrumental in the rise of the extreme Right: the existence of a supposed cultural hegemony (what the extreme Right calls Cultural Marxism) of a condescending and authoritarian Left that imposes a new unnatural morality on the average citizen. YouTubers and influencers, there are a number of opinion makers in the traditional media, disguised asenfants terribles although they are often over sixty and have had their lives sorted out for years, who complain that freedom is threatened by the wokismIt is common for the same people who make fun of the "offended woke"They find it intolerable that a feminist corrects them or that someone suggests some formula of "inclusive newspeak", often trying to convert, in the name of exasperating narcissism, their daily pettiness into definitive proof that there are legitimate reasons to rebel. woke and good-natured that violates their freedom.

With the drama in Afghanistan, the refugees issue has returned to the headlines. And perhaps it is time to remember that, with their gradual arrival, and in a changing context, the member states of the European Union have been applying integration policies with unequal results in which one can see a large gap between what the law says and what is applied afterwards. This is, in fact, the main conclusion of the latest NIEM (National Integration Evaluation Mechanism) report, a European project developed by think tanks in several countries that evaluates integration systems for refugees. Despite the fact that the 14 EU countries analysed have legal frameworks comparable to international standards in terms of the protection of migrants and refugees' rights, administrative barriers and the lack of resources, coordination and actions tailored to the needs of this group make it impossible for them to exercise the rights recognised by law. The gap between the legal framework and integration policies is especially marked in key areas such as housing. The Spanish and Greek cases are paradigmatic in this sense. Let's take a look at it.