Juan Villoro In Descartes’ error, António Damásio points out that recent brain studies reveal that our decisions do not depend on reason but emotion. Hence the title of the book. The Portuguese neuroscientist maintains that Descartes was wrong to define the human being as a …
Antonio Navalón When you visit Saigon or Ho Chi Minh – which is what it is called today in tribute to the first precursor of the Indochinese peninsula’s independence and later the Vietnam War winner against the Americans – one realizes that this site represents …
Photo: Victor on Unsplash Luis Rubio The key to development lies in the joint action of millions of individuals exercising their freedom and making their own decisions, within the framework of rules established by the State. When those rules are coherent and, above all, derive from recognizing human nature as it is and not how …
Photo: Nathan Shively on Unsplash Luis Rubio The function of the umpire in constitutional matters is that of breaking the ties among the other branches of government. In recent years, with the legislature in control of the executive, the sole guarantee of political and institutional stability has resided on the Supreme Court of Justice; but …
Photo: NastyaSensei on Pexels Juan Villoro Childhood exists so that adult life becomes mysterious. It is not the same to meet a criminal lawyer today as to have met him when he was six years old and was dedicated to killing ants and sometimes eating them (the interesting thing is not that a child does …
Image: Wildpixel on iStock Luis Rubio Inequality is one of the most powerful grievances and complaints that President López Obrador has raised, which enlivens many in his base. There are good reasons for that, which does not mean that the president is advancing toward their diminution: rather, everything he does has seemed to be oriented …
Manuel’s generosity with Sepgra began early in the short life of its existence. While reading one of his columns published in The Asia Times, it was not possible not to ask his permission to reproduce it here. His response was “by all means, not only …
Antonio Navalón Every day it is more difficult to understand the actions of our leaders. More often than not, our political leaders do things that only they seem to be able to understand. I want to believe that their way of acting transcends having other …
Photo: Alycia Fung on Pexels Luis Rubio “The compulsion to silence others is as old as the urge to speak,” affirms Eric Berkowitz* in an extraordinary study on censorship. For nearly a century, the post-Revolutionary Mexican government suppressed freedom of expression, engaged in all sorts of efforts to censure the media, controlled the conversation, and …
José Manuel Suárez Mier * My readers asked me to elaborate on the evolution of the political parties in the United States and from that historical vision to see what will happen today with an extreme polarization between parties and within themselves. The first government …