Month: August 2017
August 27, 2017
Bad Government by Consensus
Luis Rubio Democracy was not invented to engender agreements or consensus but rather for precisely the opposite: to manage disagreements. For its part, politics is the space for the negotiation...
August 20, 2017
The Future
Luis Rubio We Mexicans are peculiar, at least our governments are. We have been reforming for decades, but we avoid changing in order to convert the reforms into an implacable...
August 13, 2017
That’s No Joke
Luis Rubio The old Soviet Union and Mexico had a distinctive element in common: jokes. There are books of Soviet jokes that were also told in Mexico: both societies were...
August 06, 2017
The Return
Luis Rubio When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he changed the history of Rome. That step, says Lawrence Alexander, implied “that a decision was made. That there was no turning...