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May a Hundred Flowers Bloom.

Photo: Mina Marie Michell on PexelsAntonio NavalónFor a long time in China, there was an element of bewilderment that contaminated world communism. Mao Zedong, the great helmsman, the absolute...

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My Readings

Photo: Pickawood on UnsplashLuis RubioThe year 2021 has been quite strange. It began with nearly exponential growth in the number of contagions and ended with a downward trend. While...

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Monetary Schizophrenia*

Image: Wildpixel on iStockManuel Suárez MierThe global economic crisis caused to some extent by the pandemic has generated totally deranged economic policy proposals. Here I analyze those that have...

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Endurance tests

Image: Metamorworks on iStockAntonio NavalónWe, the people, must decide whether to be part of endurance tests or to chart our destiny in which democratic values and the value and...

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Paradoxes

Image: Paolo Farinella on iStockLuis RubioThe discourse, body language, and tone are increasingly more intolerant and revealing of a growing despair. Verbal radicalization was on the rise throughout last...

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How to Annihilate Autocrats*

Image: Andrea de Santis on UnsplashJOSÉ MANUEL SUÁREZ-MIER Erica Chenoweth shows that peaceful resistance is more effective than armed struggle. In the current climate of anxiety that prevails in...

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Governments on the Verge of Panic Attacks

Photo: Samer Daboul on Pexels Antonio NavalónSince the beginning of time, governments have served - with greater or lesser effectiveness and for better or worse - for many things....

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Till When?

Photo: Aron Visuals on UnsplashLuis RubioThe evidence of economic stagnation and social regression is overwhelming. Programs of social transfers to the president’s clienteles, although politically motivated, do not compensate...

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