In many democratic countries today, and particularly in France, Great Britain and the United States, public opinion is becoming increasingly polarized. We must not forget that this has always been fatal for democracies. And if it continues, it will continue…
In a great many countries, the rejection of foreigners has reached such levels that it has become one of the main electoral issues. Everywhere, foreigners are criticized for doing nothing to integrate, for not learning the language of the host…
Some things are easy on the eye, but we don’t pay much attention to them until it’s too late. Such is the case with shortages. Particularly food shortages. Since the dawn of time, when a nation has had a long-term…
Alongside the countless pieces of bad news that have been piling up for power in France since the President’s re-election in 2022, compounded by the calamitous dissolution of 2024, there may finally be one piece of good news today: the…
The situation in France and many other democratic countries is much more than a political crisis. It’s a crisis of meaning: common sense has disappeared. When you look at events around the world, you get the impression that what’s most…
In this troubled autumn, wherever we are in the world, I have the feeling that many people lie to themselves about who they are and what the world around them is like, so that they can refuse to see the…
The survival of civilization, democracy and fair, sustainable development depends on an almost unique and completely overlooked factor: civility. Its opposite is better known: incivility, that intolerable attitude which allows us to ignore the consequences of our actions on those…
Once the heatwave of June 2025 is over, other priorities will come to the fore: all over the world, and particularly in Europe and France, we’ll see the resurgence of other urgent issues: purchasing power, pensions, war, employment, education, health,…
It would be too easy – and too conventional – to give in to despair. I won’t go into the endless litany of bad news that undermines our morale every day and saturates the headlines of the world’s press, until…
