From Mary Shelley to artificial intelligence, a warning about technical ambition when it becomes detached from moral responsibility. In April 1815, the eruption of a volcano in what is now Indonesia spread a cloud of ash that covered the sun and particularly damaged Europe and North America, although the entire planet was affected.1816 became known

An institutional analysis of how 21st-century socialism erodes checks and balances, destroys incentives and replaces promised equality with new extractive elites. Institutions of Discord: The Extractive Ambiguities of 21st-Century SocialismBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano Why do nations that adopt socialism in the 21st century fail?The answer is not found in the declared intentions of

How ideological structures gradually dominate moderate democracies from within the institutional system itself. The paradox of the coalition or the art of the legal Trojan horseBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano If anything defines the tragedy of contemporary democracy, it is not its lack of enemies, but its touching inability to recognize the true nature

Power that claims to redeem the dispossessed often ends up managing their dependency, their votes and public resources. FROM THE EPICENTER OF POWER. THE STOCK MARKET IS LIFE It is one of the most persistent, studied and frustrating contradictions in political and economic history.The gap between the rhetoric of redistribution and the personal accumulation of

Magnifica Humanitas rightly warns about technological power, but avoids the decisive question: what kind of human consciousness intends to govern it? The recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas places the Catholic Church once again within the great contemporary debate on artificial intelligence, technological power and human destiny.The gesture matters.For years, much of religious thought observed the digital

A reading of Carlos Cuesta’s essay on markets, democracy and the advance of statism. LONG LIVE CAPITALISM, LONG LIVE FREEDOM.By Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano Nothing like the echo of freedom and free initiative to remind us of the engine of human ingenuity.As some old sage of economics might say, capitalism is not perfect, but it

A critique of public spending, debt and political blindness in a world already transformed. The Great Illusion and Stubborn Reality: The Cost of State FantasyBy Dr. Nelson J. Mosco Castellano Look, gentlemen, let us speak clearly once and for all!Because in this country we love living in the limbo of beautiful words while the railway

From Lasch to Le Goff, a critical reading of the abandonment of the worker, the moral capture of elites and the cultural manufacture of a new common sense. Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was an American sociologist and historian of the left, and a profound critic of the Marxist mutation that followed the fall of communism.He observed