Antonio Navalón Seen the world as a whole and taking into account the enemy that sooner or later will end up killing us either in the form of pandemics, floods, tsunamis, or the very inability to manage the environment, it could be considered that the …
Photo: Pashalgnatov on iStock Luis Rubio When divorce is outside the realm of possibility, the two parties are obliged to understand each other one way or another. That is the rationale that Mexico and the United States have pursued concerning the border that both nations share. A mere look around the world confirms that there …
Manuel Suárez Mier* The famed and prolific US legal expert Cass Sunstein just published the fascinating book “Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception” that explores the irritating topic of how to qualify false speeches that have become widespread. The Supreme Court …
Antonio Navalón We will never know how lucky we were to discover that we were mortal suddenly. It is practically impossible to reconstruct what the world cared about exactly a year ago when it was completely different from today. However, the second round has already …
Luis Rubio An old joke has it that a candidate offers the electorate the option of heaven or hell. The voter first visits heaven, finding everything tranquil and in order. Later the voter passes by hell, where he comes upon lovely gardens, tables laden with …
Juan Villoro Vicente Rojo was seven years old when his mother had to sell the piano. His father, who belonged to the Communist Party, had gone into exile in Mexico after the Civil War, and it would take Vicente ten years to reach him. In …
Juan Villoro In December 2020, I spoke with Irene Vallejo in a virtual meeting organized by the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Suggestively, the Aragonese philologist took up a major theme of her book El infinito en un junco (The infinite in a reed): the decisive …
Manuel Suárez Mier* In my decades of teaching economics, I always try to persuade my students that incentives have consequences as they are a mechanism that alters the prices of goods and services to which consumers react either by increasing or decreasing their demand, as …
Luis Rubio A tweet at the beginning of the week summed up the moment: “The President prepared more for the march of women than he did for the vaccination.” The extraordinary fence built in the Zócalo betrayed the true perceptions inside the presidential palace, revealing …
Manuel Suárez Mier* Yesterday the most ambitious public spending plan (American Rescue Plan, ARP) in the United States history was approved, 1.9 trillion dollars that Congress sanctioned in a strictly partisan vote, now that the Democrats control both houses and the White House. The ARP …