The speech of the new king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, about the need to replace the"classical Welfare State of the second half of the 20th century with a participation society" has opened a central discussion on our future. Its basic idea is simple: the Welfare State, a kind of enlightened despot which tried to solve the vital problems of the people "from above", by giving them solutions decided and managed by the bureaucratic-state apparatus has become a problem, from being the driving force of a sort of progress it has become a barrier to it.
Less than a month before the elections, crucial for the future of the political project that has been leading Argentina for a decade, no one could foresee an imponderable as the one that has actually taken place. Cristina Fernandez's health has been seriously affected by a health problem.
Over the last few days there have been many views and a lot of alarmed reporting on the mythical US Government shutdown. Most of that commentariat operates in conditions of nearly perfect ignorance aided and abetted by the usual ideological bias.
/08.10.13/.- The journal Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, published by FAES Foundation and directed by Javier Zarzalejos, its secretary general, celebrates its tenth anniversary with the publication of its 40th issue. In the editor’s note that introduces the issue, FAES claims that “the Spanish Constitution cannot integrate more arbitrary identity accounts without inevitably compromising the political principle from which it emanates and which confers meaning and legitimacy to it”.Read the Editorial | Article by Fernández Bereijo
Juan José Linz died last Tuesday in New Haven (USA). He was the most important Spanish figure of international Political Science. Linz was born in Germany to a Spanish mother and a German father but was raised in Spain. His studies were conducted at the University of Madrid from where he went to the United States as a graduate trainee in 1950. His intention was to attend the New School for Social Research where Hannah Arendt was working and who, a year later, in 1951, published the three volumes of her very famous The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Cuba hoy: la lenta muerte del castrismo. Con un preámbulo para españoles
10.09.2013. The speech of the new king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, about the need to replace the"classical Welfare State of the second half of the 20th century with a participation society" has opened a central discussion on our future. Its basic idea is simple: the Welfare State, a kind of enlightened despot which tried to solve the vital problems of the people "from above", by giving them solutions decided and managed by the bureaucratic-state apparatus has become a problem, from being the driving force of a sort of progress it has become a barrier to it.
10.09.2013. Less than a month before the elections, crucial for the future of the political project that has been leading Argentina for a decade, no one could foresee an imponderable as the one that has actually taken place. Cristina Fernandez's health has been seriously affected by a health problem.
10.08.2013. Over the last few days there have been many views and a lot of alarmed reporting on the mythical US Government shutdown. Most of that commentariat operates in conditions of nearly perfect ignorance aided and abetted by the usual ideological bias.
10.08.2013. The journal Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, published by FAES Foundation and directed by Javier Zarzalejos, its secretary general, celebrates its tenth anniversary with the publication of its 40th issue. In the editor’s note that introduces the issue, FAES claims that “the Spanish Constitution cannot integrate more arbitrary identity accounts without inevitably compromising the political principle from which it emanates and which confers meaning and legitimacy to it”.Read the Editorial | Article by Fernández Bereijo
10.07.2013. Juan José Linz died last Tuesday in New Haven (USA). He was the most important Spanish figure of international Political Science. Linz was born in Germany to a Spanish mother and a German father but was raised in Spain. His studies were conducted at the University of Madrid from where he went to the United States as a graduate trainee in 1950. His intention was to attend the New School for Social Research where Hannah Arendt was working and who, a year later, in 1951, published the three volumes of her very famous The Origins of Totalitarianism.
01.01.1995. Cuba hoy: la lenta muerte del castrismo. Con un preámbulo para españoles
