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On voit Berlusconi, dont on fit bêtement un attardé alors qu’il était un précurseur, se métastaser à travers l’Occident, de Trump aux États-Unis à Babiš en République tchèque. On voit les GAFA réfléchir aux villes de demain, inventer les nouveaux espaces publics, qui auront la spécificité vertigineuse d’être privés. Au nom du bien-être de chacun, e
... See moreRaphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)
• Assign responsibility.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
The accumulation of wealth by experts, combined with the decreasing efficiency of technocracy, is creating this third institutional crisis.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond
The liberal aversion to national interest stems from an idealism, a larger vision of country, a vision of some ambition and nobility—the ideal of a true international community. And that is: To transform the international system from the Hobbesian universe into a Lockean universe. To turn the state of nature into a norm-driven community. To turn th
... See moreCharles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Krugman is pushing policies that require high real income growth, precisely when real income growth is relatively low. He is putting the cart before the horse and asking for some burdensome policies precisely when they would be toughest to bear.
Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
A HOLISTIC ATTITUDE.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
ro khanna • Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space
to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
To repeat: there is no democracy of truth.