Jordi Graupera i García-Milà

Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research. He has worked as an essayist, professor, and researcher in political thought, anthropology, social thought, and international relations at several American universities, such as New York University, Princeton University, Saint Francis College in Brooklyn, and Stanford University. His research has focused on highlighting the contradictions of liberal states when faced with foundational disputes over human nature.

He has collaborated with various media outlets, including Catalunya Ràdio, El Periódico, La Vanguardia, RAC 1, BBC World, NY1 News, and The New Yorker. Through journalism and political activism, he has defended a critical vision of the political culture of his country and the Western world. In 2019, he ran for mayor of Barcelona in the municipal elections as a candidate for "Barcelona es capital."

He has published the essays La soberbia (Pride, 2020) as part of the "Pecados capitales" (Capital Sins) series by Fragmenta Editorial and Estimarás Dios sobre todas las cosas (You Shall Love God Above All Things, 2023) in the "Diez mandamientos" (Ten Commandments) collection by the same publisher. He is the author of La perplejidad (Perplexity, Destino, 2023), a chronicle of his time in the United States.