Archive - Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man

On a country dear to me

Feb 4 •

Michel Djerzinski

October 2023

AMLO's popularist dream

On Mexico's inevitable political shift

Oct 26, 2023 •

Michel Djerzinski

August 2023

What is populism?

A schematic account of late modern politics I have a simple model of how politics worked in the twentieth century. Allow me to briefly sketch it out: I…

Aug 9, 2023 •

Michel Djerzinski

August 2022

Wealthy Expats in Mexico City are the Functional Equivalent of a Progressive Tax

Crude materialism has explanatory power, sometimes

Aug 3, 2022 •

Michel Djerzinski

March 2022

The Periodic Table

"I listened — in the silence of curfew one could hear the murmur of the Dora, lost friend, and all friends were lost, and youth and joy, and perhaps…

Mar 9, 2022 •

Michel Djerzinski

February 2022

NATO expansion into Eastern Europe was a good idea

Spare a thought for the Holbrookes, Albrights, and Nulands of the world.

Feb 23, 2022 •

Michel Djerzinski

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