No estamos preparados para AMLO

La ironía de los últimos años de relativa estabilidad democrática es que nos han dado una falsa percepción de fortaleza institucional. “Sí, tal vez puede tener ideas malas, pero no...

An end to NAFTA is not a free ride for the left

I don’t know if it was Trumps’s election, but ever since November 2016, I have come to develop a healthy sense of skepticism regarding experts in international politics. So, coming...

Colossal (Review)

Original y divertida, Colossal (Ella es un monstruo) habla sobre uno de los problemas modernos menos discutidos en el cine: el alcoholismo. En el 2015, de acuerdo con estadísticas oficiales,...

The Dangers of Deficit-Talk

When you talk to Mexicans these days, you get two underlying opinions about the man in the White House. The first is that Donald is playing a poker game with...

The power of (foolish) ideas

I was recently reading the excellent interview of Marilynne Robinson by Barack Obama and got to thinking about the power of ideas, mostly foolish ones, in the context of political...