Author name: Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano

Cospaia, Moresnet and Liberland as examples of spontaneous order versus fiscal monopolies. Cospaia is one of the most fascinating “accidents” in history. It was a small strip of land in Italy that became an independent republic for nearly 400 years (1441–1826) simply due to a cartographic mistake. The fortunate error occurred when Pope Eugene IV […]

A historical and strategic assessment of tariffs and managed trade under the EU-Mercosur framework. The word tariff comes from the Arabic rancel, referring to a tax or decree imposed by authority upon subjects. Tariffs, as taxes on imports, have existed for millennia. Precursors can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC,

La caída del Helicoide En la noche de ayer la dictadura bolivariana toco fondo; y con ella el que denominó: “socialismo del siglo XXI”. Con toda la hipocresía propia de quien sabe que ha sojuzgado a su pueblo durante VEINTISIETE AÑOS, Delcy Rodríguez reconoció ante la parodia parlamentaria que en Venezuela “hay presos políticos”. La

– From Civic Association to Corporatist Fusion– Digital Echo Chambers and the Tyranny of the Majority– The Structural Exhaustion of the Welfare State– Belgium as a Structural Mirror– Responsibility, Freedom and the Future of Democratic Societies “Individualism is a reflective and peaceful sentiment that disposes each citizen to isolate himself from the mass of his

Why, if Tocqueville prescribed preventive medicine, does democracy remain in intensive care? A sharp question: if Tocqueville gave us the preventive remedy — associational life and decentralization — why is the patient still in intensive care? Analyzing the security policies of the current Mexican administration through the lens of Alexis de Tocqueville is fascinating, as

When institutional capture and political spectacle erode democracy, memory and culture become deliberate acts of resistance. The symptoms of systemic corporate capture are visible everywhere. According to recent official data, the United States has already collected at least US$130 billion after President Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to increase tariffs as a

From soft despotism to modern corporatism: how democracy can erode freedom from within. – The Rise of Soft Despotism and the Tutelary State – Democratic Individualism and the Emergence of Corporatism – Equality Versus Liberty: The Structural Roots of Corruption The Democratic Collapse: Tocqueville’s Structural Warning From soft despotism to modern corporatism: how democracy can

Metastasis of Liquid Society “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for

A strategic reading through Umberto Eco’s critique of bureaucratic simulacra and the liquid society. Government systems are human creations. And as such, they are fallible, corruptible, deformable, decadent and ultimately collapsible. History does not call for alarmism, but for lucidity. When examined carefully, it reveals a recurring pattern of institutional exhaustion. The current global architecture

A geopolitical reading of managed decline and the demand for renewed sovereignty in Munich 2026 Three Hundred Years of European Decline From Jonathan Swift to Marco Rubio If Jonathan Swift, the satirist behind Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal, were to inhabit the office and voice of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in 2026,