Can we imagine France without an effective government until May 2027, in an increasingly dangerous world where decisions vital to the country’s future can no longer wait? This is what awaits us, whatever the future scenario. And it may seem…
In many democratic countries today, and particularly in France, Great Britain and the United States, public opinion is becoming increasingly polarized. We must not forget that this has always been fatal for democracies. And if it continues, it will continue…
Some things are easy on the eye, but we don’t pay much attention to them until it’s too late. Such is the case with shortages. Particularly food shortages. Since the dawn of time, when a nation has had a long-term…
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,…
