How to Kill a President

A radical philosophical manual masquerading as a revolutionary playbook — unflinching, poetic, and utterly urgent.

On How to Kill a President is a conceptual weapon cloaked in the guise of a book—less a conventional argument than a tactical arsenal of fifteen incisive lessons. Each chapter’s title—How to Kill a Union, How to Kill a Tyrant, How to Kill the Future—reads like a manifesto of resistance, but what’s being dismantled is far broader than any single leader or regime. It’s the very architecture of modern sovereignty itself: law, nationhood, collective memory, hope, and the illusions of liberal progress.

This isn’t your usual political theory. Forget prescriptions, reforms, or roadmaps for a kinder state. Instead, the book drags you through power’s haunted backstage: the rituals that crown presidents eternal, the violence disguised as order, the metaphors that sanitize tyranny. What surfaces is neither nihilism nor utopia but a fiercely alive space for political imagination—radical, volatile, uncertain.

Rejecting both liberal sentimentality and nostalgic revolution, On How to Kill a President speaks to those who sense a system in terminal decline—and seek language sharp enough to name it, bury it, and ignite what comes next.Juan de Dios Vázquez is a historian, award-winning writer, and former Minister at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.. As Chief of Staff at Mexico’s Ministry of National Security, he helped shape policies on crime, security, and international cooperation.