What do Cato the Elder, Voltaire, and Pierre Mendes France have in common? All three, like many other politicians and intellectuals around the world, understood that for an idea to gain traction, it had to be repeated over and over…
Among the thousands of matters that were overlooked and that are now coming to light because of the current situation, one such matter is or should be the major role that the voluntary sector and all other voluntary activities, whether…
A self-induced crisis, the greatest in a century; deliberately triggered by almost all of humanity to save lives because only isolation could protect them. A crisis with immense costs: hundreds of millions of jobs lost or threatened; the disappearance of…
We are only at the beginning of this crisis, in all of its dimensions, and particularly on the economic and social fronts. Many sectors, such as tourism, transportation and entertainment, will only recover in a very long time; many jobs…
The terrifying accident at the Russian weapons and ammunition warehouse in Achinsk, Russia, not far from Krasnoyarsk, is a grating metaphor of what is happening around the world. And, it is still perfectly avoidable: the accumulation of ammunition and weapons,…
There is something pathetic about the battles we are engaged in, throughout Europe, to rightly participate in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and waste recycling. Meanwhile, elsewhere, coal and oil are shamelessly used, waste is thrown into the sea…
We are experiencing today, almost everywhere in the world, two apparently contradictory forms of demands: on the one hand, some people are calling for immediate reductions of income and wealth inequalities through taxation. On the other hand, young people are…
Be reassured that I have never considered being a candidate for any ministerial position and I only wish to make good use of the departure of a minister by discussing a much more serious problem: Once again the issues are…
The tragedy of today’s French farmers (who have been disillusioned for twenty years into thinking that Paris and Brussels would always be there to finance their surpluses) must stop. Today, with the exception of a few, farmers are sinking into…
