Listen to this article : I am sometimes criticised for putting forward worst-case scenarios. The most recent events, in France as elsewhere in the world, should have convinced the most optimistic that the worst is not impossible, and that…
Listen to this article : If a world war is defined by the confrontation of two armies, bringing together soldiers and armaments from most of the countries on the planet, the third world war started a long time ago….
Listen to this article : It was difficult, some would say impossible, in 2017 to predict what might happen in the next five years. And yet, many people at that time had predicted and described the possibility of a…
In politics, as in any human activity, private or public, it is essential not to rely on immediate emotions, not to give in to a frenzy, to think carefully about the long-term consequences of all our decisions before taking them,…
Nothing is more fascinating than dystopias, in which the past is reinvented to imagine how it would have turned out if a particular character had not died on the date of his or her actual death (for example, how the…
Listen to this article : Since 1988, in France, presidential campaigns have been shorter each time, and less nourished by programmatic content. And each time, we pay the price: a president elected without a programme, who cannot impose on…
Listen to this article : For a dictatorship to last long, it must not only have the means of surveillance and terror. It must also be able to convince the people it enslaves that their future, in a regime…
Listen to this article : If we want to understand a geopolitical situation, and predict its evolution, we must first make the assumption that all the actors have good reasons to act as they do. In particular, in order…
Listen to this article : Weak signals of the evolution of mentalities and power relations can be found in many fields, and in particular in a field where they are rarely found: the cinema. In fact, since its inception, the…
