Month: December 2014
December 28, 2014
My Readings 2014
Luis Rubio My best reading this year was Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World, a history of the origin of Anglo-Saxon liberalism and its differences with its...
December 21, 2014
Grievances and (Dis)enchantment
Luis Rubio Mexican society has never been one to trust its government. At least from the time of the proverb of the Spanish Conquest “Obedezco pero no cumplo (“I...
December 19, 2014
Aspirations and Realities
FORBES – diciembre 2014 Luis Rubio George Orwell would have understood the contradictory attitudes of Mexicans. In his book 1984 he coined the term “doublethink”, the ability to believe contradictory...
December 14, 2014
Work vs. Technology
Luis Rubio The discussion on minimum wages is increasingly less realistic and more electioneering. And ever more risky. Of course, our politicians are fully within their rights to propose ideas...
December 07, 2014
Obeying the Law
Luis Rubio “When I visit a country, wrote Montesquieu, I am concerned less with knowing what the laws are than if they are applied”. The Rule of Law is a...