There are moments when everything seems lost and when there would be every reason to despair: the climate appears irreversibly disrupted; biodiversity is disappearing at breakneck speed; AI seems out of control. War is at Europe’s borders. In France, the…
Listening to the debates in France today—which, for the moment, resemble those that preceded the election of a village mayor in 1920 more than a presidential campaign in 2026—I get the feeling that too few candidates understand, or are willing…
At a time when the world is undergoing a multifaceted crisis whose scope and depth few people are willing to acknowledge, and when the most astonishing technologies are severing our connection to reality and work, in most democratic countries, political…
While forty (at least…) candidates, ranging from Socialists to Republicans, vie for the votes of all the most reasonable voters, France is preparing for a runoff in the second round of the 2027 presidential election between the candidate from La…
Today’s conflicts have a characteristic not seen since World War II: no belligerent can yield without disappearing. After 1945, it was the fascists and the Nazis who disappeared. In the conflicts that followed, the survival of the major powers was…
Europe is not in decline. It is tired. This is not the same thing: decline is a fate; fatigue is a state. Medicine distinguishes between two forms of fatigue: Physical fatigue, which results from the depletion of energy reserves: mitochondria…
Two Americans are facing off on the world stage. One leads the most powerful empire on the planet. The other leads the West’s oldest moral institution. The first thinks he is God. The second tells him that God, today, does…
What is at stake in the war in Iran, with the catastrophic consequences looming (even if we can now hope for a respite), should remind us of a truth that has been swept under the rug for far too long….
In the 21st century, power no longer resides solely in territory, capital or technology. It now resides in a rarer, more intimate and infinitely contested resource: human attention. Attention is not simply a psychological disposition; it is a biological function….
