The Remains of the Shipwreck

Antonio Navalón In these difficult times, it is not only that the truth is kidnapped – which usually happens – but in these moments even death is kidnapped. I don’t know what is more tragic if the bewildered face of the world’s leaders promising solutions …

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China: Where to?

Luis Rubio China has become a factor of interminable dispute: will it replace the United States as the next superpower? Is the authoritarianism that characterizes it superior to democracy? Is its apparently uncontainable rate of progress sustainable? All relevant questions. Many more are the attempts …

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Expenditure, Debt, and Inflation

Manuel Suárez Mier* The interest rate on the 10-year US Treasury bond almost tripled from a year earlier and is twice the level it was just three months ago. Many believe heralds that inflation will soon follow, which has been very low despite runaway spending …

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Winds of war

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 …

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Without the Option

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 …

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The Lie in Political Discourse

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 …

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The Second Round

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 …

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The Left Hand

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 …

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Textile and Text

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 …

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