The conclave that led to the election of Pope Leo XIV was more geopolitical than its participants were willing to admit. It also demonstrated that the Catholic Church is capable of making timely decisions in response to global emergencies when taking a stand within a world order undergoing profound transformation, if not outright disintegration. The […]
When observing the international political scene today, few things appear as clear as the deeply critical tensions facing Western democracies. The current situation in the United States, one of the oldest and most established democratic systems, serves as evidence of this and should leave us far from reassured about the future of democratic political systems […]
In a nutshell, the challenges about China are the same as they were two decades ago. The US got it wrong then can it get it right now? Plus, today, Beijing has its domestic issues to solve with or without America. It’s one of the rarest events in history – its repetition a generation later. […]
Stable-currency could further divide the USA and China, with one country embracing it and the other rejecting it. The two are re-engineering themselves in different directions. Who will be right? American stable currency, based on crypto, promises to change the US and the world with it. Yet China is very cautious. It’s not just money; […]
The violence of the clash between Israel and Hamas cannot leave theology indifferent—not even Christian theology. If only because the merciless situation it has produced since October 2023 is taking place in a land that is in some way “holy” to the three Abrahamic religions that inhabit it. But above all because every time there […]
The history of the CPSU, the CPC, and the global situation don’t push Xi’s China toward democratic reforms. But domestic contradictions create fissures that could be hard to control otherwise. In 2012, the year Xi Jinping took power, it was the 63rd anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CPC) rule in China. It was a […]
The modern enlightened thought has made out of the working hypothesis «etsi Deus non daretur» a kind of procedural dogma of its attempt to bring order to our world. Sometimes, in doing so, it has shown an intransigence worthy of the most rigorous religious belief. It often forgot that «living without God» is certainly possible—but […]
