Photo: Benjamín Flores on Proceso.com.mx Luis Rubio The art of governing, says David Konzevik, is the art of managing the gap between the expectations that the citizenry entertains and the day-to-day realities. Mexico is a living example of the enormous breach between both factors and the incapacity of its governments to bridge it. The question …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* I began last week the account of racism in the United States and how an opposite current of thought and indoctrination emerged that seeks to amend the horror of slavery and racial discrimination by arguing that “race is a cultural category …
Antonio Navalón We all lack a lot of study, knowledge, and reflection on who they are, what they are like, what they think, and what the Chinese and Xi Jinping want. These are bad times to be the leader of a country, a political party, …
Photo: Cyano66 on iStock Luis Rubio No one can confuse the government of China with that of Mexico. Independently of the immense historical and cultural differences, the two nations seek to transform themselves, each in their own style and form. Whatever ends up being the future of the Asian giant, the great contrast between the …
Juan Villoro “Organizing a library is a silent way of exercising the art of criticism,” wrote Borges. Books live in contagious density; they dialogue with each other; they benefit from other people’s discoveries, but also errors: Ptolemy, who was wrong, allows us to assess Galileo’s …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* Unlike Ibero-America, where the fusion of races and Christianization took place only when the first explorers arrived, the United States has had a conflictive history of extermination and discrimination, first of indigenous Indians and then of the black slaves essential to …
Antonio Navalón Spain, and everything that a country with such strong roots and consequences in the European Union means, has entered an uncertainty stage. From the beginning, from the adventure that was the political transition from the Franco dictatorship to Juancardista democracy, there was a …
Image: Evgeny Gromov on iStock Luis Rubio An old proverb has it that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Something like this happened to Mexico when successive electoral reforms were negotiated. All of them were conceived by political actors who wanted to lead Mexico towards political stability (especially those from 1958 to …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* My respected colleague and friend Macario Schettino published an article in which he maintains that the only way workers’ wages can be seriously raised is through increases in the labor force’s productivity that increase the competitiveness of the economy. He cites …
Antonio Navalón There was a time when the world was for real. Currently, it is not that in the age of Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, bullets kill less. Nor is it that viruses are delusional dreams of science fiction creators. Before, the world was a …