Silvio Cúneo’s text names a real wound. Not only because of the recent election results, but because of something deeper: the feeling that memory, accumulated pain, and certain basic convictions about human dignity no longer act as a bulwark against authoritarianism. This desolation is shared....

Dina Boluarte’s removal from office is not a victory for the people, but an internal readjustment of power. Congress did not obey the clamor of the streets, but rather the need to preserve a system that is crumbling from within. The fuse was changed so...

In August 1971, Richard Nixon announced the suspension of the dollar’s convertibility into gold. This closed a cycle that had begun with the Bretton Woods agreements, which gave the United States —the only industrial and financial power to emerge with its capabilities intact and as...

Javier Milei remains in power thanks to a balance that is as fragile as it is perverse: the dispute over who will succeed him. He is no longer sustained by social trust or a vision for the future, but by the calculations of each faction...

Europe calls itself the cradle of democracy and freedom. And yet it is also the continent that still preserves monarchies as if they were part of the natural landscape, unquestioned relics of a lineage believed to be immutable. This contradiction reveals a profound orphanhood: Europe...

From the orderly center of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a crack opened in the soul of Europe. From it sprang the most disturbing forms of beauty, thought, and modern music. Also, from its edges, the century gave birth to its monster. ...

In an economy as small as Chile’s, and with the degree of concentration that characterizes it, the constant appeal to “what the market thinks” should at least raise doubts. Far from representing a collective consciousness or objective technical rationality, this alleged oracle is nothing more...

‘History repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce” –Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte ...