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‘YOU DON’T BEAT POPULISM BY PRACTICING POPULISM’

“My contempt for the state is infinite.”

JORGE LUIS BORGES AGAINST THE STATE • FREEDOM, LITERATURE, AND POLITICS IN THE WORK OF JORGE LUIS BORGES

Milei’s Deregulatory Success Stories • ARGENTINA IS LIGHTING A PATH.

TERROR AT 10,000 METERS • WHAT AN EXCEPTIONALLY BUMPY FLIGHT IN ARGENTINA TAUGHT ME ABOUT DEREGULATION

How Much Can Milei Privatize? • THE LONG ROAD TO “EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE IN THE HANDS OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR WILL BE.”

EVITA’S STRANGE CONSCIENCE • FEW HISTORICAL FIGURES FROM THE LAST CENTURY HAVE INSPIRED AS MUCH GLOBAL FASCINATION AND LORE AS EVA PERÓN, BECAUSE THE POPULISM SHE EMBODIED WAS ITSELF A FORM OF THEATER.

A PEACEFUL, EASY, AND TOLERABLE ARGENTINA • APPLYING ADAM SMITH’S WISDOM

How Milei Won • IT TOOK THREE INGREDIENTS: AN OFFBEAT CANDIDATE, A BOMBASTIC CAMPAIGN, AND A PUBLIC HUNGRY FOR SOMETHING NEW.

ARGENTINA GOES TO THE DOGS • JAVIER MILEI’S VERY LARGE, VERY LIBERTARIAN MASTIFFS

Milei’s Rothbardian Bargain

QUOTE: ‘KEEP AI UNREGULATED

THE BEST CAFÉ IN BUENOS AIRES • CAFÉ TORTONI, ARGENTINA’S OLDEST CAFÉ, HAS OUTLASTED AUTHORITARIANS, BUREAUCRATS, AND LOCKDOWNS.

The Free Speech Champion Who Takes His ‘Enemies’ to Court • JAVIER MILEI’S COMMITMENT TO LIMITED GOVERNMENT HAS FALTERED WHEN IT COMES TO FREE SPEECH.

How Soccer Covers Up for Dictators—and Brings Them Down • ARGENTINA’S MILITARY RULERS THOUGHT THE 1978 WORLD CUP WOULD BOLSTER THEIR LEGITIMACY. INSTEAD, IT HASTENED THEIR DOWNFALL.

HOW MILEI DEFUSED ARGENTINA’S HYPERINFLATION BOMB • ARGENTINA’S PRESIDENT RESTORED THE SOLVENCY OF A BANKRUPT TREASURY AND A BROKEN CENTRAL BANK.

Milei’s Legacy Depends on Dollarization • IT’S TIME TO TAKE ARGENTINA’S CURRENCY OUT OF ITS GOVERNMENT’S HANDS.

An Absurdist’s Exile in Buenos Aires • Witold Gombrowicz’s Argentine years

What the Falklands War Made Us Forget • A new book uncovers a forgotten history of migration, trade, tourism, and family ties between the Falkland Islands and Argentina.

REVIEWS

ARCHIVES • Excerpts on Argentina from Reason’s vaults

Don’t Cry for Me

ARGENTINA BRICKBATS