Analysis
What scapegoating is in politics and how it is used to manipulate
How scapegoating works in politics: collective blame, causal simplification, propaganda and preparation of the ground for exclusion or repression.
Publication contributor
Articles by Daniel Sardá · Page 31
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Current Affairs
Report: María Corina Machado’s tour of Spain in April 2026
Agenda, meetings, reactions and controversies surrounding María Corina Machado’s tour of Spain in April 2026, based on official sources and verifiable reporting.
Analysis
What Realpolitik is: power, interests and the limits of politics
What Realpolitik means, where the concept came from and why it should not be reduced to cynicism or dirty politics.
Fundamentals
What natural law is and why it was so important for liberalism
Why natural law was decisive for liberalism: rights prior to the state, limited government, property, consent and resistance to unjust law.
Fundamentals
History of money: from commodity money to the modern monetary system
From commodity money to the modern monetary system: how value, trust, trade and the role of the state changed in the history of money.
Fundamentals
History of gold and silver as money and their monetary importance
Why gold and silver dominated monetary history, which other metals were used as money and what role gold still retains today as an international reserve asset.
Fundamentals
History of classical liberalism: origin, rise, crisis and renewal
From absolutism to constitutionalism, from free trade to twentieth-century renewal: the history of classical liberalism as a tradition of limits on power.
Analysis
Francisco de Miranda: the precursor who imagined a free, united and constitutional Hispanic America
Soldier, traveller, conspirator and political thinker: Miranda imagined a free, constitutional Hispanic America on a continental scale.
Analysis
Fiat money: what it is and the critique from a liberal-libertarian perspective
What fiat money is, how the modern monetary system works and what the liberal-libertarian critique of the state monopoly over money looks like.
Analysis
What false dichotomy is and how it is used to manipulate in politics
How false dichotomy works in politics: artificial reduction of options, moral pressure, polarisation and closure of public debate.
Fundamentals
The most important authors of classical liberalism and what each defended
An intellectual guide to classical liberalism: its central authors, their nuances and what each contributed to the defense of liberty against arbitrary power.
Analysis
Athens vs Sparta: two models of society, economy, culture and power
Athens and Sparta were rival models of the polis: one more commercial and deliberative, the other more militarised, agrarian and disciplinary.
Analysis
Venezuelan liberalism today: a small, dispersed, but real ecosystem
Venezuelan liberalism exists more as an ecosystem than as a bloc: small, dispersed, but real.
Analysis
Richard Cobden, the Corn Laws and the free-trade turn between Britain and France
Cobden helped bring down the Corn Laws and later became linked to the treaty that redefined trade between Britain and France.
Fundamentals
Principles of classical liberalism: core ideas explained clearly
Individual liberty, private property, equality before the law, limited government, free markets and the rule of law explained in clear, ordered terms.
Opinion
The individual first: private property, liberty and the error of collectivism
Tolerance, property and moral responsibility only make sense if the individual comes before the collective.
Analysis
The history of liberalism in Venezuela: from the constitutionalism of 1811 to Liberalismo Amarillo
A clear explanation of liberalism in Venezuela: its constitutional antecedents, the Liberal Party, the Federal War, Liberalismo Amarillo and its differences from contemporary classical liberalism.
Fundamentals
Mercantilism, Adam Smith, free trade and David Ricardo
What mercantilism was, how Adam Smith broke with that logic and why David Ricardo reinforced the classical defence of free trade through comparative advantage.
Analysis
Demagoguery and techniques of political manipulation
Demagoguery is not just rhetoric: it is a degraded way of doing politics through emotion, simplification and manipulation.
Analysis
Cuba, Che Guevara, UMAP, executions and due process
Che Guevara played a real role in early revolutionary violence; the UMAP camps extended a wider logic of forced labour, discipline and revolutionary citizenship.
Analysis
Confucius vs Laozi: the individual, community, the state and social order
Confucius thought order through moral cultivation and relationships; Laozi, through naturalness, simplicity and minimal coercion.
Practical
Useful apps for entrepreneurs in Venezuela: practical tools by use case
A practical guide to apps for entrepreneurs in Venezuela, organised by real use cases: selling through WhatsApp and Instagram, organising the business, creating content, handling payments carefully, light ecommerce and appointment management.