The Olympic Games, Paris 2024, are now over. Does the undisputed success of the organization prejudge France’s ability to meet the daunting challenge of raising France? Waiting for the Paralympics Without exception,Read More…
In the words of the great American athlete, Jesse Owens, “The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.” This sentiment echoes the preamble of the latest Olympic Charter, which states,Read More…
In the geopolitical arena, the Sino-American rivalry is becoming increasingly complex. The United States, for all its power, seems oblivious to China’s long-term ambitions. Beijing’s strategic vision is to become the worldRead More…
Which crisis ? Everyone knows that a crisis calls for an urgent decision. This is the meaning of the Greek word “krenein”, which is the origin of the word as found inRead More…
France, a service economy In 1973, with the first oil shock, France discovered the structural weaknesses of its economy, and entered a period of stagflation, i.e. high inflation without wealth creation. ItRead More…
Between the publication of an open letter, on March 22, on the site “Future of Life”, which calls for a 6-month moratorium on research in artificial intelligence, signed by 27,565 people includingRead More…
Putin is definitely looking to China. In the first quarter of 2023, Chinese imports, into Russia, amounted to USD 24.07 billion year-on-year, up 47.1% year-on-year, while Russian exports reached USD 29.77 billionRead More…
The history of Amsterdam is intertwined with the history of Calvinist Protestantism, of French origin, which contaminated the Netherlands via French Flanders. The attraction of Calvinism is to propose a return toRead More…
We saw in the post (Productivity gains are the conquest of happiness) that productivity gains, by generating surpluses, opened the way to innovation. Without the productivity gains made possible by the steamRead More…
No one doubts that the adaptability of human societies is the key to their survival. Jared Diamond describes the example of the Viking stable society in Greenland between the 10th and 15thRead More…
