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No government is legitimate unless it can ensure healthy, affordable food for all its citizens. And many governments around the world have faced or are facing a food crisis. Sometimes, it goes even further, when this seemingly specific crisis reveals…
In politics, as in any human activity, private or public, it is essential not to rely on immediate emotions, not to give in to a frenzy, to think carefully about the long-term consequences of all our decisions before taking them,…
It is a sad fact that culture is one of the main collateral victims of the current pandemic. Indeed, nothing is sadder than empty concert halls, unoccupied theatres, closed cinemas and deserted museums. Nothing is more distressing than dismantled symphony…
The pathetic Brexit debate in the British Parliament, (blocked between three contradictory choices, and no majority support for any of the three) reminds us that situations can arise where the preferences of individuals may be rational, but the collective preferences…
Having predicted and denounced for a long time the development, on a global scale, of what I called a “hyperclass,” cut off from the rest of the people (which themselves will be divided into “infranomads” forced to migrate to survive,…
The theory is likely to support the teaching that art softens proprieties. In principle, art represents civilization, beauty, serenity and benevolence. Moreover, in principle, nothing is more soothing than frequenting masterpieces of art. Furthermore, societies that reject art are particularly…
Artists feed themselves at all times on technological innovations; sometimes these are determinant and disrupt art. Especially when they come at the right time, like the apparently modest development in 1841, by the American painter John Goff Rand, of the…
It is not an unknown fact. Representatives of the people were chosen by drawing lots in the past: the ancient Athenians resorted to sortition, in the 5th century BC; it was also the case in Venice, for centuries, for electing…
It is particularly easy, at the beginning of August 2014, to be pessimistic about the future of the West.