Listen to this article : On the eve of a major election, nothing is more important than to avoid being influenced by moodiness or last-minute incidents. What matters most is not whether a candidate is likeable or arrogant, but…
Listen to this article : Few people want to recognise that Emmanuel Macron’s re-election is far from a foregone conclusion, and that Marine Le Pen’s is perfectly possible. For at least four reasons: 1. No president has been re-elected…
When the pandemic began, I immediately called for our industrial apparatus to be transformed into a war economy, to produce the masks, respirators, medical and hospital equipment, and vaccines that were so cruelly lacking. We didn’t do it. And we…
Listen to this article : As the presidential campaign draws to a close, criticism is pouring in from all quarters about the lack of serious debate between all the candidates, and almost everyone agrees that the candidate president is…
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,…
Nothing is more fascinating than dystopias, in which the past is reinvented to imagine how it would have turned out if a particular character had not died on the date of his or her actual death (for example, how the…
Listen to this article : Since 1988, in France, presidential campaigns have been shorter each time, and less nourished by programmatic content. And each time, we pay the price: a president elected without a programme, who cannot impose on…
Listen to this article : For a dictatorship to last long, it must not only have the means of surveillance and terror. It must also be able to convince the people it enslaves that their future, in a regime…
Don’t be fooled,” François Mitterrand liked to say, “the French far right is also on the right. Never has this cruel analysis, of which the history of France is full of examples, been better verified than in the last few…
