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Vestiges

Photo: Markus Spiske on UnsplashLuis RubioThe pandemic has ended, but its aftereffects are visible everywhere. An epidemic, Ambrose Bierce wrote in 1906, is “a disease having a sociable turn...

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Music for Weddings.

Photo: Pixabay on PexelsJuan VilloroI have lived long enough to attend the weddings of a friend who refers to the most recent one as his "fourth transformation." A journalist...

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Great Thinkers on Technology

Photo: Gorodenkoff on iStockLuis Rubio Every year brings surprises and opportunities, but some can leave us speechless in the face of what happened. In March 2020, all the inhabitants...

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Lobbying and Uncertainty in the US*

Photo: igapa.netManuel Suárez MierOn the lobbying in the United States by Mexican society to stop the destructive excesses of the mind-boggling leader of its government and the peculiar political...

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May a Hundred Flowers Bloom.

Photo: Mina Marie Michell on PexelsAntonio NavalónFor a long time in China, there was an element of bewilderment that contaminated world communism. Mao Zedong, the great helmsman, the absolute...

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My Readings

Photo: Pickawood on UnsplashLuis RubioThe year 2021 has been quite strange. It began with nearly exponential growth in the number of contagions and ended with a downward trend. While...

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Monetary Schizophrenia*

Image: Wildpixel on iStockManuel Suárez MierThe global economic crisis caused to some extent by the pandemic has generated totally deranged economic policy proposals. Here I analyze those that have...

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Endurance tests

Image: Metamorworks on iStockAntonio NavalónWe, the people, must decide whether to be part of endurance tests or to chart our destiny in which democratic values and the value and...