Month: February 2012
February 26, 2012
Exceptional Nations
Alexis de Tocqueville, the famous French thinker and politician, coined the idea that certain countries would be exceptional, that is, qualitatively distinct from the others. Great myths have been constructed...
February 19, 2012
Uncommonly Lucky
On occasion we Mexicans don’t realize how uncommonly lucky we’ve been. Fraught with problems of our immediate milieu and thoroughgoing pessimists, we often do not recognize that the political and...
February 15, 2012
New Road
The future is not something that comes about on its own. Rather, it is the product of decisions that are made, or not made, day to day. The entirety of...
February 12, 2012
PAN: Observations
The key to success for a political strategist is to appear innocent and to have a reputation for honesty and benevolence. He or she who attempts to appear Machiavellian simply...