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Trumpism and the Dark Enlightenment: A Schizoid Analysis

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The Second Round

Image: Carlo Toffolo on iStockAntonio NavalónWe will never know how lucky we were to discover that we were mortal suddenly. It is practically impossible to reconstruct what the world...

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From Barkeep to Drunkard

Photo: Thiago Miranda o PexelsLuis RubioAn old joke has it that a candidate offers the electorate the option of heaven or hell. The voter first visits heaven, finding everything...

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The Left Hand

Photo: Freestocker on iStockJuan VilloroVicente Rojo was seven years old when his mother had to sell the piano. His father, who belonged to the Communist Party, had gone into...

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Textile and Text

Photo: Jonny_Nurko on iStockJuan VilloroIn December 2020, I spoke with Irene Vallejo in a virtual meeting organized by the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Suggestively, the Aragonese philologist took up...

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The Migration Crisis Reappears

Image: Bestgreenscreen on iStockManuel 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...

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Struck Out

Photo: news.culturacolectiva.comLuis RubioA 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.”...

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Biden’s Economic Rescue Plan

Photo: YouTubeManuel 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...

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Dead leaves

Photo: Dan LeFebvre on UnsplashDead leaves are collected with a rake. Memories and sorrows, too. And the north wind carries them away in the cold night of oblivion.Jacques PrévertAntonio...

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