I have been called the “bearer of bad news” far too often for me not to be on my guard about risks and opportunities. That being said, I am convinced that opportunities can only be seized once risks have been…
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…
Having said over and over again for years that the watchword, in private life as in economic and political life, should be “general mobilization”, and having so often denounced the mental vacations in which the citizens of the West, and…
Of the four middle schools and three high schools in France that bear the name of Françoise Dolto, one has just tragically stood out. The circumstances of this tragedy, exceptional though they may be, should not lead us to make…
I would have liked to have been able to support the bill just passed by the National Assembly on end-of-life conditions and the right to assisted dying. But I cannot. I would have liked to because nothing would be more…
One of the things that struck me most when reading the excellent book La Meute, which meticulously describes the sect organized around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is the total lack of interest on his part, and that of his lieutenants, in political…
In twenty years’ time, we will no doubt say that 2025 was the year when Europe seized, or missed, its chance to become a major player in world history once again, and above all to remain in control of its…
Among all the cryptocurrencies that have made headlines, there is one very special one that could soon revolutionize the global economy. First, let’s remember that cryptocurrencies are private currencies, recorded on tamper-proof digital files, secured on a blockchain using tokens…
Does the election of a pope offer useful lessons for democratic institutions? At first glance, none: the secret election, during a conclave, after an indefinite number of rounds of voting, of a man, who must be unmarried, by 133 others,…
There are subjects that we don’t dare to broach because they make us feel too guilty. We prefer not to talk about them and let a complicit silence settle in, until at some point it becomes unbearable. And it is…
