Month: November 2025
November 30, 2025
Mexico’s Fading Leviathan
Luis Rubio When Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan in 1651, he offered a warning that still resonates: chaos is humanity’s natural state (“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”), and order must...
November 23, 2025
The Reign of Arbitrariness
Luis Rubio President Sheinbaum insists that the decision to move flights from Mexico City’s airport to the AIFA wasn’t political. Perhaps not. It’s plausible that the former president never intended...
November 16, 2025
The Inverted Pyramid of Power
Luis Rubio The confusion could hardly be greater. President Sheinbaum is right to reject a return to Mexico’s “war on drugs.” But in the same breath, she equates confronting cartels...
November 09, 2025
Scapegoats
Luis Rubio Stop looking for scapegoats. That reflex—so convenient to a politics of polarization—has run its course. When violence spreads and murders grow more brazen, the issue stops being about...
November 02, 2025
Government and Growth
Luis Rubio Lord Acton, the 19th-century British historian and politician, once observed that “liberty depends on the division of powers, while democracy tends toward the unity of power.” He added:...