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Muerte accidental de la sátira

En Lo intolerable. Repulsión, vergüenza y responsabilidad colectiva ante la crueldad contemporánea (Cuadernos Anagrama, 2026), Enrique Díaz Álvarez escribe: “No es solo que tendamos a movernos más por los afectos que por la razón, sino que, al obviarlo, se escriben éticas y teorías políticas que devienen sátiras. Totalmente inaplicables”. Sus páginas son una llamada a salir del letargo frente al sufrimiento ajeno y ese fragmento hace referencia a la sátira, recurso con el que la cultura evita que las conciencias hibernen.

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Stephen Colbert apaga las luces del plató de 'The Late Show', en su último programa, el pasado 21 de mayo tras ser cancelado por la CBS.
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Stephen Bassett, ufologist, political activist and lobbyist, in Washington, May 14.

Let’s start with the proven facts: Disclosure Day is the most anticipated film of the summer. Its director and screenwriter, Steven Spielberg, revealed details about its plot this week on one of Stephen Colbert’s final shows: he says it tells the story of the theft by officials, “committed to the truth,” of all information held by the government “about UFOs and extraterrestrial visits,” and the system’s desperate attempts to prevent it being revealed.

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Front pages of the 'Roswell Daily Record' for July 9 and 10, 1947.Emily Blunt, in a promotional still from Steven Spielberg's film ‘Disclosure Day.’Screening of the documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’ at the Capitol for members of Congress.Dan Farah, director and producer of ‘The Age of Disclosure,’ alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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