« Wherever there will be nothing, read that I love you »… Has anyone ever written a more beautiful declaration of love, referring to the final sentence of Diderot’s letter to Sophie Volland, June 10, 1759, at the early stages…
According to old beliefs waking a sleepwalker may kill them; at least make them insane. In fact, science tells us that the opposite is true: sleepwalking (somnambulism) is the result of the interruption of muscle paralysis that ought to accompany…
The tragedy of Aleppo, as we witness the daily images and the increasing hellish conditions, is battering away at long-held beliefs that all geopolitical specialists have been keen to repeat for the past twenty years. Aleppo shows that the certainties…
…But they do not want to know. From the training for the unemployed to the democratization of the European Union and the construction of the Francophonie, all discourses given by leaders and political observers eruditely explained that France has moved…
The presidential electoral campaign in France is entering a new phase, not necessarily more constructive than previous phases. After months of entering into personal squabbles, soundbites, hunting for patronage and betrayals, candidates gradually publish programs, ‘en bloc’ or bit by…
In these changing times—precarious times—inducing a philosophy of immediacy and futility, the consideration of the long term and its measurement on the part of governmental decision makers is ripe with lessons to be learned. First, because it is a vital…
How we wish we didn’t have to worry about the future of the world! Same for climate change, rising unemployment, and technological excesses. How we wish we didn’t have to fear a terrorist strike as the children leave school or…
In our insecure democracies, most politicians are prepared to do anything to gain or stay in power. For them in the same way that an anvil is utterly useless to an aviator: ideas, projects, values or programs are of little…
Today, in our society, everything reminds us constantly that in fact we attach an ever increasing importance to the hierarchy level of individual scores and ranking, while all the pedagogues of the world continue to state in every possible way…
