Sublime

Ce chapitre s’intéresse à un épisode particulier et peu connu, celui du rôle joué par les intellectuels néolibéraux pour faire échouer l’Organisation internationale du commerce, l’institution qui devait compléter le système de Bretton Woods, ainsi que dans la rédaction des premiers projets, après la guerre, d’une loi internationale sur les investis

Thomas Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population

Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. may have understood American Protestantism better than anyone. By staging resistance at the center of ordinary life (again on buses and at diners), he revealed an overwhelming lack of flourishing.

At the same time, he argued, the desire to attract and satisfy students as though they are mere customers leads to academic coddling, in the form of easy grades and expensive facilities and entertainments, such as intercollegiate athletic teams.

A week later, the publication of an anti-lockdown manifesto called the Great Barrington Declaration grabbed attention.13 Co-authored by epidemiologists from Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford, it declared, “Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing