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Conclave and democracy.

Geopolitics

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,…

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To do away with “the system”.

Society

At a time when huge threats are unfolding all over the world, threatening the very survival of humanity and calling for very large-scale collective responses, we hear writers, journalists and politicians everywhere advocating withdrawal into oneself and denouncing “the system”…

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Can today’s tyrants be compared to Adolf Hitler?

Geopolitics

More than 30 years ago, I explained that if Russia were humiliated as Weimar Germany had been, a dictator would take over in Moscow and, like Hitler, threaten to invade us. That is what happened: the West refused to help…

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