
Perhaps the cultural division between “Caesarism” and diffuse popular sovereignty springs from an ancient tale, very widely known in English-speaking countries and hardly at all in Latin ones. It’s about an episode from the life of King Canute, the ruler of a now forgotten 11th Century viking empire, who had is throne carried to a beach and then commanded the tide to cease rising... / Leggi in italiano
Greece appears to have been able to bring off one of the most spectacular “stings” in human history - worth not much less than €300 billion. If a United Europe with its capital in Brussels truly exists, it will react. If instead the reaction consists primarily of attempts to assign blame, the conclusion to be drawn must be another. Meanwhile in the Caspian Sea... / Leggi in Italiano
That Greece is well beyond the edge of bankruptcy and that it will eventually have to abandon the euro has become perfectly obvious. Admitting that though, and acting in consequence, is impossible. That’s the heart of the political problem. But a fantastic solution does exist: the Argentinian patacón (Leggi in Italiano)