22 December 2014
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Good resolutions
As happens every year with January drawing near, like many others, I like to take the time to review the past year and make good resolutions for the one coming up…
As happens every year with January drawing near, like many others, I like to take the time to review the past year and make good resolutions for the one coming up…
It was impressive to witness the end of the battle for the designation of a party leader and realize that no program was proposed by either he or his rivals…
One only has to watch the most successful television shows or have a look at this year’s literary prizes to have the impression that a great nostalgia is underway in France…
Once again, two seemingly unrelated events tell us a lot about the evolution of our society…
As always, it is in the encounter of two apparently unrelated areas that the new is found…
As we follow the French political debate, the country seems to be in a desperate situation…
As everybody knows, the French Parliament has too many civil servants and not enough private-sector workers…
The tide of the battle that is being played out for nearly two centuries between the economy and politics, between market forces and democracy, between capitalism and the state, is now turning in favor of the market, because it is global, to the detriment of democracy, locked within borders…
In this troubled world, the 20th FIFA World Cup final tournament could make some forget the massacres (in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan and in Ukraine), unemployment, (in France and many other countries around the world), hunger (with more than one billion men, women and children going to bed hungry), the climate crisis happening around the world, and the loss of the meaning of life for nearly all human beings…
