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…
Don’t be fooled,” François Mitterrand liked to say, “the French far right is also on the right. Never has this cruel analysis, of which the history of France is full of examples, been better verified than in the last few…
Listen to this article : For decades now, the French have been voting with lasers, not to bring to the presidency of the Republic someone to whom they really wish to entrust the power to act on their destiny,…
Listen to this article : It is through the confusion of the meaning of words that the disorder of minds is established. It is through self-censorship that dictatorships begin. It is through the fear of enemies that the worst…
Listen to this article : Sometimes, seemingly unrelated issues bring us back to fundamental common concerns, to invariant structures of our societies and their dynamics. For example, the debate on name change and the debate on NFTs, so far…
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 : In a groundbreaking book published in 1929 (“A Room of One’s Own“), the British writer Virginia Woolf showed that what had most hindered the development of women’s literature in Britain was the fact that…
Listen to this article : A recent successful film (Don’t Look up) tells what would happen if American political leaders were confronted with the imminent threat of a meteorite that could destroy the planet. Having worked on this subject…
I was once told (but I cannot swear to the authenticity of the anecdote) that, in the late 1930s, in certain circles of the French bourgeoisie, on the invitation cards for a lunch, a party, or an exhibition opening, the…
