Month: October 2011
October 30, 2011
Corruption
Whenever I see or find out about cases of corruption in Mexico, I keep thinking of whether the country has changed or whether everything remains the same. Some things continue...
October 23, 2011
Recentralize?
For Lenin, “the organizational question is at the center of everything”. The Russian revolutionary leader was referring to the way that the Bolsheviks should organize themselves, but the principle is...
October 16, 2011
Checks and Balances
When in 1688 the last Jacobite sovereign, King James II, decided to ignore the laws of Parliament, he was promptly deposed, giving birth to modern British democracy and its English...
October 13, 2011
Disquisitions
David Lurie, the leading character in the novel Disgraceby CM Coetzee, appears to be devoted body and soul to courting disaster in his life, until he ends up fired from...
October 09, 2011
Bad ideas
The problem with bad ideas is that they spread as if they were good but, when those who promoted them become aware of their error, there is no alternative other...
October 02, 2011
Euro Dilemmas
The ideal of the Euro constituted an enormous challenge for many countries that have nothing to do with the European Union. After years of economic crises, political ups and downs,...