In this troubled autumn, wherever we are in the world, I have the feeling that many people lie to themselves about who they are and what the world around them is like, so that they can refuse to see the…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
