Incongruities
Something peculiar took place vis-à-vis the Bicentennial celebration: the government organized it, but the population appropriated it. The...
Hybrid
Referring to the end of the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn wrote that "the revolution is an amalgam of former...
Hubbub
Seneca, the Roman philosopher, had long since anticipated it: "If one does not know to which port one...
Hope
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” reads Dante’s inscription above the gates of hell. Many Mexicans must...
Form and Legality
Democracy, according to Schumpeter, is a “method for making decisions”. This definition is so broad and pragmatic that...
For What?
In one of his famous observations, Einstein affirmed that "the unleashed power of the atom has changed everything...
Entrepreneurs
Mexico had always been a country of entrepreneurs. From Aztec tianguis to marketplaces in the middle of the...
Emigration
An old tale cautions that one should be careful of what one wishes for, because it may come...
Dream on
One of the things that impresses me most of the legislative and political processes in all societies is...
Diagnoses
Gadfly and great satirical actor Groucho Marx once observed that “Politics is the art of looking for trouble,...