In the 21st century, power no longer resides solely in territory, capital or technology. It now resides in a rarer, more intimate and infinitely contested resource: human attention. Attention is not simply a psychological disposition; it is a biological function….
There are some simple rules that history keeps repeating, without us ever really listening to them. Among them: never attack without being prepared for the worst. We live in a world where the balance of power is no longer where…
Despite appearances, the world is frighteningly coherent. The extraordinary interdependence of production processes, climate issues and geopolitical balances is apparent at every turn, and nowhere more clearly than in the relationship between oil crises and the organization of our cities….
Will the USA, Israel and their allies win against the Iranian terrorist regime, or will they have to resign themselves to a status quo that allows the regime to rebuild its forces? To ask the question of the fate of…
Since 1945, humanity has been living under the shadow of a third conflagration. It was feared in the confrontation between capitalism and communism, and came close to nuclear apocalypse on at least two occasions, until the implosion of the Soviet…
On the threshold of great mutations, there are always prophets of collapse. They announce the end of work, the end of history, the end of ideologies, the end of growth, the end of man. Today, more prosaically, they are announcing…
It’s rare to see a president undermine his country’s foundations by claiming to help its development. That’s exactly what President Trump is doing; and one wonders how long American bosses and unions will tolerate such a policy. On the surface,…
Why did Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, Facebook and Palantir, come to Paris to give a lecture at the Institut de France on the Antichrist? According to this German, who became an American citizen while taking New…
For two thousand years, Europeans have believed that the Chinese, Africans and all other human beings saw the world as they did, i.e. centered around Europe, and that they were full of admiration for the supposed material and intellectual superiority…
