If we all began to behave as well-informed citizens, we participated with intelligence and culture in public affairs, we had a sense of community and the sense of being part of a common project, things would gradually (but significantly) improve and we could finally go back to be a country of which
The following article is my translation of «Chavez, c'était Patrick Sébastien devenu dictateur»: interview that appeared in the BibliObs column of Le nouvel Observateur. When Charles Dantzig learned the news of Hugo Chavez's death, he "had the feeling that an important character in his book was disappearing, he was in disarray." This is because, it
We had understood that history was no pupil's teacher by now. But we would never have imagined that it would repeat itself at such close distances. Not yet finished the screening of the Berlusconi film, in fact, the narrow and vulgar populism starts to turn again in the films of the 5-star Movement. Born
The following article is my translation of Les intellectuels anéantis par la puissance des médias? from the blog La République des livres by Pierre Assouline. What, then, is an intellectual? It looks like nothing, this question; it is a real knot about the concept and a debasement of it. The time has passed
The last meal of the death row inmates has around 2700 calories and a strong fried food component. It was thanks to the valuable TripAdvisor reviews and driven by desire, that we decided to try this particular meal. In fact, for a few weeks now, the fried oil had become a precious commodity. To exist is nothing but hot air, after all.
I am lucky and above all I am very happy, I thank God because I thought about my children and said: "Oh my God, my children!" I also said these things to my university mates and I managed to influence many excellent people by telling the story of the horse in the tradition of the polo game: "The horse is a gift from God to
A more complex society requires more knowledge. Teachers and teaching are, therefore, the cardinal points on the way to the future. To keep up with the world and overcome the challenges it poses (or imposes) we must know and know how to do more and better. Training is the pivot on
Of course, it is all too easy, as is customary in certain politics, to promise new jobs (to younger people, perhaps) or to attribute the scarcity to the responsibility of some social group (immigrants, for example). But creating jobs (and therefore improving the economy) means creating a harmonious network of knowledge and skills that
A life lesson from Italo Calvino without banality or simplification. There would be a need - as a resolution for the new year - for an ethics based on "rational clarity, discipline of work, courage and a sense of duty". With the hope that the future will make us forget the vulgarity of the simplifications applied to
If xenophobia and fear of the different have been the masters of political thought in recent years, the agenda we would like to write starts from words such as diversity, school, integration, respect, culture, openness, religions (in the plural). Diversity must no longer be an opponent, but a value. Focusing on training and one
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