Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence chooses the right biblical image but falls short on the program: much warning against Babel, little plan for Jerusalem

Renters make up 18 percent of Spanish households. Rent caps enjoy 68 percent support. The gap may exist because most homeowners come out ahead—without quite realizing it

Spanish classical liberals have spent decades blaming the listener for a failure of our own — wrong message, wrong audience

We call it transparency when we watch our neighbors. A mature democracy begins when taxpayers watch the state

Brussels promised a single framework for doing business in Europe. What it has produced is a new corporate form laid on top of 27 national systems

Spain’s high-speed rail illustrates a broader problem familiar: governments reward expansion, while maintenance goes unfunded

Europe is outraged by Venezuela because it still believes—or pretends to believe—that the world was once governed by rules

Innovation and the single market are invoked to strengthen Europe, but without facing the costs that its survival requires

Political hypocrisy feeds our civic decay and demands tougher standards

Interview by Miguel Ors for El Podcast del Liberal

We pay by square meters for what we throw away by kilos. The problem isn’t the tax, but our refusal to link price and behavior

It is not enough to blame the elites: politics reflects what we demand and tolerate

Making the welfare state viable—something even its supporters now doubt—requires civic maturity and responsibility

Europe is not collapsing from too much freedom, but from having trivialized it—turning it into an excuse for not producing

BBVA’s failed takeover shows who wins, who loses — and why Catalonia loses the most

Spain did something highly meritorious in its history, and now it is reaping the rewards. Let’s understand it and make the harvest easier

The misfortune of those unaware of their true interests is to see their desires fulfilled—always benefiting those who grant them

For artificial intelligence, making us feel good is easy. The hard part is making us better—and doing so without making us dependent

A mental pandemic for which there is no vaccine; but Europe could still come out well if it liberalized and refrained from retaliation

A lack of political leadership opens the door to foolishness. This is no coincidence, and fixing it will not be easy