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…
Since 2010, many events that seemed to be improbable at the time have actually come to fruition! We have experienced events such as the creation and collapse of the Islamic Caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the election of a real…
A priori, nothing makes more sense than the point retirement system proposed by the French government, and taken up, among other sources, from the proposals of the commission I chaired twelve years ago: it aims to take note of the…
As a terribly disappointing year draws to a close, many people around the world have a feeling that the coming year could be much worse. In 2019, the world failed to solve the problems that we have faced for many…
One of the reasons for the success of the yellow vests can be attributed to the fact that they stood independently of any apparatus, in particular trade unions, and succeeded because of this, in building a relatively homogeneous movement, around…
