El inquisidor general

La palabra tolerancia ha tenido y sigue teniendo mala prensa en nuestro país. Más que una virtud ha sido valorada tradicionalmente como flaqueza. Históricamente, ha primado en España el discurso de la intolerancia, ligado casi siempre al de la Inquisición. Y, desde luego, desde más allá de nuestras fronteras se ha juzgado permanentemente a los españoles como presuntos sujetos agentes y pacientes de una historia de intolerancia y represión. En este libro se demuestra que el término tolerancia es polisémico. Al lado del clásico sentido de libertad de conciencia, en el concepto...

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Las especiales circunstancias de naturaleza política que vive España constituyen una magnífica ocasión para reflexionar sobre la pluralidad que en materia jurídica ha caracterizado al conjunto de reinos y estados peninsulares durante un milenio. Esta obra repasa todos y cada uno de los textos legislativos extensos de los verdaderos reinos y estados peninsulares del pasado, que el autor no duda en denominar como constituciones.

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...