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Les idéologues Rien de tel qu’une grande idée pour unir les gens et nous permettre de construire la société de nos rêves. C’est l’idéologie qui nous a donné la démocratie libérale et la sécurité sociale. Mais les idéologues peuvent, comme les experts et les militants, faire une fixation sur une seule idée ou une seule solution, avec des résultats e

an endless parade of trend watchers prophesy about the future and essential twenty-first-century skills, the buzzwords being “creative,” “adaptable,” and “flexible.” The focus, invariably, is on competencies, not values. On didactics, not ideals. On “problem-solving ability,” but not which problems need solving.

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For the survival of democracy, some inefficiency is a feature, not a bug.

a Swiss novelist once quipped, that ‘News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.’30

The scenario of radical inequality that is taking shape in the U.S. is not our only option. The alternative is that at some point during this century, we reject the dogma that you have to work for a living. The richer we as a society become, the less effectively the labor market will be at distributing prosperity. If we want to hold onto the blessi

John Stuart Mill once said: “Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”

The past teaches us a simple but crucial lesson: Things could be different.

The same logic is at work in the economic sphere too. In 1999 the government of Scotland