Over the past few months, we have all come to understand the importance of not depending on a single source for agricultural products, energy, raw materials, components and weapons. And many other things besides. In the United States, Europe and…
The reluctance of Europe’s political leaders in the face of violent American attacks is unacceptable. At a time when a threat that has been implicit for decades (the United States no longer wants to take on the defense of its…
Brands say everything about the world, and their history is that of the nations whose values they embody. We love a brand because it represents the best of a country or culture, because we want to stand out, and because…
When studying the evolution of societies, historians, economists, sociologists, political scientists and geopoliticians too often reason as if all human decisions were taken on the basis of explicit interests, such as profit, ambition, honor or a taste for power. They…
There are times, in both public and private life, when people let themselves slide towards the abyss. Not because they want to, but because they’ve stopped wanting anything else; out of weariness, out of resignation, out of that mixture of…
It was through music that the market economy began, that the remuneration of works of the mind was imagined, and that industrial society, the mass production of objects and the extreme division of labor were heralded. More recently, the digital…
For the first time since the start of the Fifth Republic, no so-called “governing” party (i.e., one that has already governed), on either the right or the left, is in a position to put forward the name of a clear…
One of the countless things that can be blamed on the French ruling class over the last ten years at least, if not much longer, is its inability to clearly explain the issues to the country, to educate, to explain…
