EN 20 MINUTOS — Ideas, stories, and concepts to understand the world in just the right time.

In 1871, Paris experienced 72 days of radical rule; Versailles crushed him in Bloody Week. Ideas and violence that marked the modern left.

When Rome fell in 476, the Roman Empire kept on existing — for another thousand years, with its capital at Constantinople. That empire almost no one remembers was the bridge between the ancient and modern worlds, the guardian of the Greek texts that fu...

The Eiffel Tower wasn't Eiffel's idea, it was painted red, it was despised by France's greatest writers, and it came within years of being torn down. The man whose name it bears was facing fraud charges when it opened. This is the story of how the worl...

In this article we are going to see what it is about. Who was Chris Voss and why his story matters.

Hesse wrote this book with a razor blade on the table and the date of his own suicide marked on the calendar. What came out wasn't a farewell note but one of the strangest and most widely read novels of the twentieth century. Why does Steppenwolf keep ...

One night in crisis, a Cambridge student asked himself such a strange question that it changed his life: who is the one observing the one who suffers? What he found in answering that question became one of the bestselling spirituality books of the cent...

Why did you choose this way? Because he thought that philosophy was neither poetry nor opinion.

Close your eyes and look for your self. That permanent center that is you. Look carefully. A friendly, chubby Scotsman did that same exercise nearly three hundred years ago — and didn't find it. What he found instead was one of the most unsettling idea...

The most powerful man in the world wrote a private journal every night that he never intended to publish: he challenged himself not to be an idiot, reminded himself he was going to die, and braced for setbacks before they arrived. Two thousand years la...

But to understand what Medea did, you must first understand who she was and what they did to her. Because this story doesn't start with a woman who goes crazy for no apparent reason.

First, he got Polyphemus drunk on concentrated wine he had brought with him, filling the cup generously and refilling it several times. When the giant, in his drunkenness, asked his name so he could reward him with a gift, Odysseus answered...

An arrow to the heel, shot by the man who started it all and guided by a god carrying a grudge. That was how Achilles died. Then came the horse, the night, and the fall of Troy. Then Homer: the poet who turned fifty days of that war into the most widel...

Por qué la destilación creó las «espirituosas»: del espíritu del alambique al whisky en tu barra — malta, barrica y la historia que conquistó el mundo.

In June 1938, a magazine issue appeared on newsstands across the United States with a cover that no one would forget. A man in a red cape and blue mesh lifted a car above his head while several guys fled in terror.

On May 6, 1939, eleven months after Superman appeared in *Action Comics*, readers of that same magazine encountered something different. There was no name on the cover.