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Housing a key issue

Society

Nothing is more revealing of a country’s mentalities than its attitude towards housing. In France, property is sacred, and housing remains scarce, and expensive. Far more expensive than elsewhere in Europe…

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A changing world

Society

In the last two decades, the world has changed; it is about time people realized this and be made fully aware of this fact. In particular, the need to understand the consequences of the great expansion of individual freedom worldwide, and everything else that comes with it: the market economy and democracy.

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Long life to Sunday!

Society

The issue of Sunday work, preposterous in most of the countries of the world, is raised ferociously in France today. Indeed almost everywhere, it is authorized, at least for small shops in tourist destinations, and increasingly for other professions…

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In praise of unpopularity

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Among obvious truths all too often heard and that have never been challenged, there is a belief that an unpopular government is a government that fails…

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French mood

Society

The mood of today’s France seems very difficult to discern. In fact, it is taking shape with precision, in hollow, through the French people response to the most significant events of recent days…

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Photographing, again and again

Society

Since the invention of photography in 1826, this technology, which Baudelaire was one of the first to understand the importance, has established itself successfully as an art in its own right. And even more so, as the easiest form of art to practice for everyone: you do not become a musician just like that; you can become a photographer just like that…

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Meditations

Society

In many areas, the East has many things to teach to the West. And those on the subject of the use of the mind are the most important ones. India as well as China have made them into areas of research, experience and practice for a long time…

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Taxpayers: Can they be made altruistic?

Society

A very interesting experiment conducted by the University of Amman in Jordan speaks volumes about the acceptable, fair and effective conditions for achieving social policy: it shows that greater knowledge by the taxpayers of the impact of the redistribution of their tax dollars encourages them to be much more altruistic….

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