Yearly Archives: 2017
Populism
Luis Rubio It sounds simple: elect me and I’ll fix it all: in the words of Trump, “I alone can fix it.” The so-called Populist seduces for the simple reason that he purposefully distorts the key intuitive element of democracy: that “the people” can govern themselves. The Populist peddles the notion, clearly illusory, that he […]
Fanning the Flames
Luis Rubio There are three precepts that no government can ignore: first, there is no alternative but to deal with the person who is the President of the United States of America. We can like it or not, but the […]
The Worry
Luis Rubio G.K. Chesterton understood Mexico’s dilemma better than anyone: “When a religious precept is shattered it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do […]
Citizen Confidence
Luis Rubio Is Mexico a democracy or an autocracy? The response would seem obvious, but it is not. Without doubt, Mexico has changed radically in its forms, but I ask myself whether in reality it has changed in essence. The evidence of the past couple of weeks is not endearing… The crucial question is why […]
For Whom?
Luis Rubio The word “democracy” has ended up being trivialized in political discourse, but above all among the population. Many of those who despised the old overbearing presidency and devoted themselves to combating it now despise democracy: before because a […]
Too Important
Luis Rubio In his book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, recently dramatized in the film of the same name, Michael Lewis describes a complex problem in an easily understandable manner. The 2008 collapse of the financial markets constituted the end of years of development of products increasingly more complex and dependent on variables […]