Welcome to this new episode. There are images that mark History not by their greatness, but by their absolute indecency. The image of Donald Trump appropriating Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize is one of them.

To understand the unheard-of violence of this gesture, we must not look at current events, but dare to summon the ghosts of 1943, when the writer Knut Hamsun offered his own medal to Joseph Goebbels. Today, we are going to hold up a mirror between the narcissistic vanity of the American President and the tragic fanaticism of the Norwegian Nobel laureate.

This vertiginous parallel reveals a chilling truth: we are no longer facing a simple presidential whim, but a true moral pathology. Yet, let us never forget the lesson of History: Hamsun ended his life in disgrace. Dignity cannot be stolen, and in the face of this triumphant imposture, rejection grows every day. It is in this surge of lucidity that our hope lies.