Cloudy Time

Federico Reyes Heroles I resort to the title of Octavio Paz’s visionary 1983 book. The end of the Cold War, the advance of science, human rights as new motors of the civilizing process, confronted with dictatorships in Latin America and Africa, the eternal conflicts in …

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Monuments

Federico Reyes Heroles There they are again. Those white columns that rise to the sky and pierce it. They are the opposite of those also white, beautiful, and sheep-shaped giants -cumulonimbus- whose immeasurable interior forces ascend and descend and can destroy the largest bird created …

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The Ideal Political System According to Artificial Intelligence

There is much talk about populism, democracy, conservatives, neoliberals, progressives, independents, no labels, republicans, autocrats, libertarians, authoritarians, totalitarians, infallible Iman, anarchists, supreme leaders, tyranny, and many other schisms. Monarchical regimes are fading away and constrained in their ability to govern, remaining as symbolic figures, except …

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Long live them!

Federico Reyes Heroles In Mexico, the axis was fear and rage. They walk on the cobblestones of the most party town I have ever known. It looks like a slow procession. I edge “to the edge”. There is no coffin in front; with a frown, …

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Conservative Nationalism.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Conservative nationalism is a worldwide trend today, although it is difficult to discern in all its intricacies. The conjunction of apparently alien forces has a strange common ideological component: it includes conservative nationalists of the traditional right and militants of some long-standing …

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