There is a study about the year 2013 that was published very recently in the journal Sociologie. It can be found here: [https://la-sphinx.fr/les-concours-ne-s-not-neutres/]. This study shows, in an emblematic case study, how much inequalities in France are reproduced from generation…
While countless crises are lurking around the corner—and can be extremely catastrophic on the financial, economic, social, ecological fronts—meanwhile in China, Russia, Turkey and India, undemocratic powers are implementing reforms to face these crises, but also rejecting human rights. And…
We talk a lot about jobs that are threatened because of advances in technology that will lead to automation, or related needs that will disappear. As such, it is likely that tasks that are now performed by executive assistants or…
”Believing that only the planets whose existence is known to us today exist is no more reasonable than imagining that the sky is populated by no other birds than those who pass our window.” The great Christian philosopher Giordano Bruno…
Ten years after the bankruptcy of the global financial services firm, Lehman Brothers, which was a key event that marked the beginning of the financial crisis, the question remains whether the world has learned the lessons of the financial crisis?…
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…
After much progress in the 1990s, marked by the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the evolution of Latin America, democracy now seems to be in decline. There were also, however, new advances that occurred recently. More precisely, in Morocco,…
In order for the death of the 44 people who lost their lives last week when the Morandi viaduct in Genoa collapsed to not be in vain, we should at least draw the following ten conclusions, in Italy and elsewhere….
It is a game that we played often in the evenings with family or friends, during my childhood. It consisted of, once we were all neatly lined up around the table, that each one of us started a sentence, and…
