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…
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…
Nothing is more important today than creating a Europe of defense at a forced march. This will require Europeans to have total autonomy in their security resources, with many more weapons designed and built in Europe, and with absolute coordination…
This is the moment of truth. For at least 70 years, the idea of a common defense has been at the heart of the question of Europe’s future: we all know that there will be no real union of European…
It is time to put at the top of the bill a subject that will undoubtedly occupy French public opinion in the run-up to the next presidential election, and which is already occupying American public opinion and that of many…
Watching the staggering news coming out of the US every day (and there will surely be more between the time I finish writing this and the time it’s published), it’s hard to find a logic, to decipher a strategy. I…
