A very great thinker, often forgotten and of whom we will no doubt hear about only on the occasion of his death, Zygmunt Bauman (a war hero in the Red Army war, who later became a communist philosopher in Warsaw,…
While the French had their eyes fixed on the vote counts of one-tenth of them, the equivalent of a regional by-election, for the nomination of one of the fifteen candidates running against one another next April for the election of…
Truth works in the same way as power, because it imposes its own diktats, even more ruthless than those of the most powerful dictators. Hence, scientific laws, indisputable because they are based on repeated experimental observations, such as the earth’s…
La présence de quelques femmes à des postes de pouvoir importants, et l’amélioration sensible, partout dans le monde, de l’accès des femmes à l’éducation et aux soins, ne doit pas cacher l’essentiel: partout, les femmes sont de moins en moins bien traitées par la société, c’est à dire par les hommes. Pour le plus grand malheur des uns et des autres.
Dance says a lot about the lives of people. It is sheer utopia, by its very nature, since it aims to give the appearance that man can escape the law of gravity, at least for a short while. And it…
« 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…
