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Enrique Krauze

Enrique Krauze

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Enrique Krauze is a historian, essayist, publisher, and the editor of the cultural magazine Letras Libres. His books include Mexico: Biography of Power (2008) and Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America (2011).

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  1. Enrique Krauze on Baruch Spinoza, the US election, Mexican democracy, and more
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    Enrique Krauze on Baruch Spinoza, the US election, Mexican democracy, and more

    Dec 3, 2024 Enrique Krauze considers the responsibility of the state to guarantee freedom, heralds the demise of Mexico’s democracy, highlights flaws in higher-education systems, and more.

  2. A New President and a Grim Legacy for Mexico
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    A New President and a Grim Legacy for Mexico

    Oct 3, 2024 Enrique Krauze reflects on the harmful tenure of the outgoing president, who weakened the economy and eroded its institutions.

  3. A Philosopher for Our Times
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Jul 26, 2024 Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.

  4. The Suffocation of Mexico’s Democracy
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    The Suffocation of Mexico’s Democracy

    Jun 10, 2024 Enrique Krauze predicts that President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum will be forced to follow an authoritarian script.

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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

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    For decades, an efficiency-centered “economic style” has dominated public policy, overriding the concerns for fairness that animated the New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. Now, Americans must brace for economic governance that delivers neither efficiency nor fairness, only chaos.

     highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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    Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

    While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.

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    The Climate Policy Pendulum

    Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
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    Could High-Skill Immigration Increase Under Trump?

    Michael R. Strain argues that the recent kerfuffle over foreign workers underscores the president-elect’s pragmatic instincts.
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    What Happened to International Law?

    Eric Posner sees the web of treaties, conventions, and institutions as another victim of the anti-globalization backlash.
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    Europe’s Year of Fundamental Choices

    Ana Palacio considers the complex array of internal and external challenges the European Union must confront in 2025.
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    Texas’s Online Age-Verification Law Must Be Overturned

    Lilian Coral & Prem Trivedi urge the US Supreme Court to protect internet users from legislation posing new privacy and security risks.
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    Revealing an Invisible Health Threat

    Angela Bandemehr & Albert Park tout deployment of hand-held X-ray devices to prevent lead poisoning in low- and middle-income countries.

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