Photo: Amar Kun Kawakibi on Unsplash Luis Rubio An old aphorism holds that nostalgia is not what it used to be. However, it constitutes a heavy burden that never quite disappears. Two sources of nostalgia cloud Spartans and Trojans in current Mexican politics. The president leads with his nostalgia for the seventies, the idyllic moment …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* It is fashionable to propose tax reforms to raise government revenue to undertake endless spending, from creating a universal welfare state, redistributing income and wealth, investing in ultra-broadly defined infrastructure, to solving global warming. The jeremiad of some in Mexico, with …
Antonio Navalón June 6 is and will continue to be a key date in the history of humanity, but especially among European nations. On June 6, 1944, the Normandy shores turned gray. That day, more than 150 thousand soldiers, more than 6 thousand ships, and …
Luis Rubio The old Soviet Union maintained cohesiveness due to the ideological monopoly that the Communist Party exercised during an era in which the government totally controlled access to information. In fact, says David Satter,* “the imaginary world of Marxist–Leninist ideology never really went away …
Juan Villoro Perfumes include stinky ingredients, metaphysics is meaningless without physics, and certain people are contradictory. The elusive Michel de Nostradamus was born in 1503 in Provence. He was one of the brightest and darkest figures of his century. An event defined his fate: the …
José Manuel Suárez Mier** The Mexican government is about to learn of the enormous cost that the serious concessions granted by its negotiator will entail. He agreed to these terms rushed to finalize one of the worst trade agreements in history, in which it capitulated …
Antonio Navalón Societies are falling apart, and with them, collective life projects and hope for the future disappear, which in the end are the only ones that maintain social cohesion. The flagship that President Joseph Biden is using to relaunch and stabilize the political and …
Luis Rubio It appears to be an enigma how innumerable nations, especially in Asia, reconcile the enormous disorder that characterizes them with their extraordinary economic performance. Whoever has observed the chaos reigning in vehicular traffic in Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, or India, to cite some emblematic …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* President Joe Biden plans to spend, in addition to budgeted spending of $ 5 trillion, $ 6 trillion: $ 1.9 trillion in aid to neutralize the effects of the pandemic; 2.3 billion for very broadly defined infrastructure; and 1.8 trillion in …
Antonio Navalón The essence of democracy is that what happened on the first of July – or any other day – is not forever. Democracy. According to Greek etymology, demos mean people, and Kratos means power. The power of the people. It was never made …