Month: December 2019
December 29, 2019
Old and New
Luis Rubio Life has its cycles and the calendar too. A year is about to end and the next one begins: the expectation never ceases to be present in the...
December 22, 2019
My Readings
Luis Rubio “Of all of man’s instruments that is not an extension of the body but of the mind, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book” Jorge Luis Borges...
December 15, 2019
Narratives and Realities
Luis Rubio Politics in the era of the ubiquity of information is about narratives: contrasting visions of the world that exaggerate the differences and attenuate the coincidences, all for the...
December 08, 2019
Violence and Terrorism
Luis Rubio The bullets did not do the job. Hugs aren’t working either. Insecurity and violence increase and there is no reasonable diagnosis of the problem nor of how to...
December 03, 2019
A Year of Retreat
WILSON CENTER – Mexico Institute Nov 24, 2019, by Luis Rubio @lrubiof As the López Obrador administration ends its first year in office, Mexicans can look back to a period...
December 01, 2019
Another Rationality
Luis Rubio Max Weber, the German sociologist, wrote that modernity –“the fate of our time”- consists of the advance of rationality and the retreat of the mystery, which he denominates...