Today, nothing is more urgent than controlling the two tsunamis—the public health and economic crises—that are battering the world. There is no guarantee that we will manage to achieve it. But if we fail, very dark years lie ahead. The…
A good skier knows, in a slalom race, to pass through a gate, you must think ahead about preparing for the next gate. And it is true for everything: the best way to deal with a crisis is to act…
Folks no longer have any doubts: this pandemic will have a huge impact on the world. First of all, it cannot be ruled out that the pandemic will be much more lethal than it is today; that health systems will…
When confronted with an attitude that we consider to be shocking, or perhaps scandalous, crazy, and unacceptable, we must first try to explain it. Not to justify such attitude, but to better understand how to deal with it, and particularly…
In a text dated February 1941, one of the most poignant among those collected and republished recently in “Pas de défaite pour l’esprit libre“, Stefan Zweig (while finishing his last tour of Europe and the United States, before returning to…
Confusion and disarray reign supreme, throughout Europe, over ideological divisions between the different political currents. As a result, the parties are fragmented, governments are unstable, the people are frustrated and have become increasingly enraged by the powerlessness of governments that…
Words have always killed. Either by the harm that insult and defamation can inflict. Or by the incitement to physical violence it can cause. Some people who had been insulted or harassed at work or in private have taken their…
Three quarters of a century ago, a genocide took place in Europe. This genocide, in other words, the explicit decision to destroy a people, was aimed at the Jews. Before them, there was the genocide of the Native Americans by…
One has to be really blind to not see that increasingly darker clouds are forming in the skies over democracies. And that the 2020 decade could become the decade of universal collapse of these democracies. There is not a single…
