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…
There is art, similar to many other types of human activities, which at times has gone out of style or has been forgotten and may never make a comeback. Most art forms have survived since the earliest antiquity. This is…
In this chaotic, crazy, violent, uncertain world, where an incredible number of parameters interfere to create a situation, constantly fluid and uncertain, most people have given up on predicting anything. And in particular, it is difficult to predict the final…
Today, for many people, the European election represents an exercise where political figures are imposed on them, and also where citizens of the continent are regularly asked to vote for Members of Parliament whom they do not know, whose actions…
As a preliminary matter, one really has to have a disturbed mind to compare fake news (in French, it is called an “infox”), with art. Fake news is presented as an objective truth, an external view of the world. Fake…
There are many things that threaten the world, in a terrible way; and we lack credible answers to these things: there are certain diseases that are still without a cure; and moral suffering that is out of reach. And no…
Today, of the thousands of types of vandalism that affect France, whereby stores and shelters, banks and prefectures, police stations and churches are attacked indiscriminately, there is one type of vandalism that deserves that we take a particular look at…
The invectives launched by the Italian government against France, which were promptly followed by French retaliations, present an opportunity to remember what France owes to Italy, as well as what Italy owes to France, and what the world owes to…
During my entire life, I have nourished my inspiration through Italy. I have learnt the language at an early age. Italy’s literature has always overwhelmed me (to cite Primo and Carlo Levi among others); her poetry does not leave my…
