Nicolas Medina Mora

Feb 7, 2025 | parapraxismagazine.com | Nicolas Medina Mora

The claim that the most influential of the neoliberal thinkers had more in common with Nietzsche—and therefore with Freud—than with the quantitative social sciences may seem far-fetched, but only if we ignore Hayek’s context.

Aug 26, 2024 | thenation.com | Nicolas Medina Mora

Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.

Aug 5, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Nicolas Medina Mora

In today’s United States, at least in liberal and leftist circles, certain aspects of identity are understood to be a matter of choice—as well as a battleground for freedom. I don’t live in America anymore, but over the course of the decade I spent there, I learned that a person’s decision to identify as Tejano, Chicano, or Latine, rather than as Texan, Mexican American, or Hispanic, has philosophical and political implications that reach far beyond semantics.

May 21, 2024 | nytimes.com | América del Norte |Nicolas Medina Mora

AMÉRICA DEL NORTE, by Nicolás Medina MoraThe grandiose title of Nicolás Medina Mora's first novel, "América del Norte" ("North America"), gives a good sense of its ironic tone and its unabashed desire to include everything on the continent, past and present: Hernán Cortés, Montezuma, NAFTA, the war on drugs, Trump, AMLO, José Vasconcelos, Alfonso Reyes, the murdered students of Ayotzinapa - even the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

May 7, 2024 | lithub.com | Nicolas Medina Mora

Some decades ago, when Mexico was still ruled by an authoritarian regime, one or another president remarked that the only two establishments one could be sure to find in every town in the country, no matter how small or remote, were a Catholic parish and an outpost of the state-owned store that sold subsidized milk.