Old age is too often presented as a time when people are no longer themselves and sink into delusions that are best despised. Thus, when De Gaulle speaks, in the first volume of his War Memoirs, of Pétain’s “shipwreck” (“Old…
For years it had become fashionable in the main circles of influence in democratic countries, both intellectual and business, to praise authoritarian regimes. The former applauded the long-term vision of their leaders; the latter praised their economic efficiency and commercial…
Allow me, for once, to distance myself from current events, at least in appearance. Every day brings us new, shocking descriptions of what the universe is like at a few distances from us. In particular, every day the James Webb…
Not for a minute can you not hear a politician or a company director say with his hand on his heart that, naturally, he is only working in the interest of future generations, that he has only the environment in…
The frequency with which heads of state are meeting at the moment is crazy: for the past two months, they have all been meeting in New York at the United Nations; then the same people met in Egypt at the…
If we could stop using words indiscriminately, democracy would be much better off. Thus, terrorism should be defined as the attempt to influence the course of events, outside a state of war, by the exercise of violence against civilians, known…
Nothing is more serious for the future of France than what is happening with Germany at the moment. Nothing is more serious for Germany than what is happening with France at the moment. This is not a personal dispute, nor…
The debate on pensions is off to a bad start. Because we are focusing on the wrong questions and on outdated issues. Ever since pension systems were created (probably first for soldiers in the Roman army), a great many means…
Everyone knows, or thinks they know, that good news is not worth talking about. And there is no shortage of bad news, either nationally or internationally. So it is understandable that, drowned out by these floods of information and cataclysmic…
