Antonio Navalón In the eighties – in the midst of the terrorist escalation of groups such as the Italian Red Brigades, the Spanish ETA or the German Baader-Meinhof – it became fashionable for intellectuals to write a message to terrorists under the title of “ if my pen was worth your pistol ”. This …
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash Luis Rubio Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The eternal riddle of both science and daily life is never resolved, but what is transcendent, says Matt Ridley in his new book on innovation, is how one thinks in this regard. The theory of evolution exemplifies the point …
Photo by Den on Unsplash Luis Rubio There is nothing older than resentment, above all of the poor toward the rich. Nor is it new to the politicians’ resource of exploiting and provoking grievances, real or imagined. Isocrates, one of the great Greek orators of the IV century A.C., accused hostility, but he recognized it …
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Thank you, Chairman Cicilline, Ranking Member Sensenbrenner, and members of the Subcommittee. I’m Jeff Bezos. I founded Amazon 26 years ago with the long-term mission of making it Earth’s most customer-centric company.My mom, Jackie, had me when she was a 17-year-old high school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Being pregnant in high school was not …
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Photo art by Esmeralda Ordaz Antonio Navalón The physical death of living organisms has different manifestations, but, in itself, death is poisonous. At some point Gabriel García Márquez said that “the only bad thing about death is that it is forever”, but an element that …
Economic policy in times of Coronavirus, two approaches It is interesting to observe in a graph the correlation between the deluge of money released by the Federal Reserve Board since March, and its effect on the S&P 500 index. The moment the funds start to flow, the direction of the curve reverses its course …
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On June 23, in one of his public comments, President Donald J. Trump was bragging about the beauty of his fortress-like wall at the Mexican border. For the 56th occasion in the past few months, he thanked Mexico and its president in particular, for …