Sublime

L’élargissement du principe démocratique dans l’organisation de l’OIC correspond à un moment de révolte contre les imaginaires partagés de la Société des nations et de la Chambre de commerce internationale (CCI) tels qu’ils s’étaient exprimés à la Conférence économique mondiale de 1927. Fini le temps où seul le principe de l’intégration négative s’

The reality is that members of the American left have, whether they like it or not, become the new conservatives. At least in economic policy, they are usually the defenders of the status quo. In contrast, some of the so-called “conservatives” are the radicals seeking major change; at a recent public event, I heard two African American intellectual

The three political lies: 1.From Hobbes, government is not about the common good or providing basic needs. It is about preserving property. 2.From Hobbes and Locke, economics is a moral-free math. Humanity’s equality need not translate to economic equity. 3.From Smith, justice is retributive—it is about punishing rule-breakers—not about making righ

Une nation ne tombera jamais d’accord sur un modèle de bonheur. Toute tentative d’un gouvernement d’imposer une seule philosophie à ses citoyens s’avère nécessairement coercitive et despotique. Berlin affirme que les gouvernements devraient protéger la « liberté négative » de leurs citoyens – c’est-à-dire se garder de toute ingérence – et les laiss

In the post-war period, much of the non-communist world was opened up to US domination by tactics of this sort. This became the method of choice to fight off the threat of communist insurgencies and revolution, entailing an anti-democratic (and even more emphatically anti-populist and anti-socialist/communist) strategy on the part of the US that pu

The best option, indeed, is the combination that links an openness to free trade with covering individuals against the adverse consequences of exposure to the violent winds of the global market. As Dani Rodrik remarked in 1998, “government