What is happening in France is very worrying, and not just for Jews. Anti-Semitism, whether cynically proclaimed by a few thugs (rappers in search of an audience, mediocre polemicists, talentless comedians), or cowardly assumed by certain leaders of supposedly democratic…
The most difficult questions are usually the simplest. The so-called experts avoid them to feed on, both literally and figuratively, obscure debates on minor subjects, forgetting to focus on the essentials, usually because it bother them. In economics, for example,…
Could you name a 100% private company, which has never raised money from anyone, which is valued in 2023 18 billion dollars, or 8 times more than in 2020? Would you have any more ideas if I specify that this…
In a century’s time of the History ( if a century could be called History), 2023 will be for France, the time where people revolted against an unacceptable crime committed by authority figures, and that as a result, a few…
The metaphor is so obvious that we hesitate to use it: watching a small tourist submarine, ironically named “Titan”, wander into the vicinity of the wreck of the Titanic, on an obscene observation trip, as if hoping to catch a…
Everyone knows and everyone says that the challenges and threats we face are global and enormous. And the answers? They stammer. Timid. Local. Helpful. Necessary. Encouraging. But not up to the challenge. In the past, humanity has thought big. And,…
Utopia is not impossible. It is even the only realistic path left to us. In fact, we must reject the permanent, haunting discourse, which is posed as an indisputable fact, which opposes production and climate, abundance and social justice, economic…
Disloyalty becomes the most common form of exercising freedom. To understand this evidence, or at least this threat, we need to go back to the fundamental elements of our modern societies, democratic or not, where the market economy dominates: they…
Once again, the economics of music tells us a lot about what lies ahead in many other dimensions of our societies: In the last few days, music industry companies have seen their stock prices tumble, because analysts predict that musical…
