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…
The rise of populism and the emergence of fragmented capitalism, both exacerbated by the election of a US president who embraces all their principles, should make us reflect on some fundamental issues. In particular, we should consider the place that…
For a long time, I thought that China would never succeed in becoming the world’s dominant superpower. There were plenty of reasons to believe this: its demographic evolution, which condemns it to grow old before it grows rich; its real…
Among all the knowledge accumulated by humans over millennia, there is some that people forget and whose importance they relearn at their expense, with each generation. Among this knowledge, there is one that is essential: No one can survive in…
