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What if... a rogue planet grazed the Earth? the Earth left its orbit? the Earth stopped rotating? a meteorite crashed into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? the Sun suddenly went out? a supervolcano erupted in the United States? humanity fell victim to a giant solar...
Money laundering accounts for 3% of global GDP ($3,000 billion). If it were a country, it would be the world's 8th largest, equivalent to the UK's GDP. The aim of this essay is to describe the mechanisms by which money is laundered, in particular the two main “schools”...
What is an emotion?What social role does it play? How can it be understood and expressed? Is there such a thing as emotional intelligence? These are the fundamental questions to which Maurice Moulay provides clear and concise answers. Going beyond a simple abstract...
“I have the impression of living differently from others. From the image of being different that he reflects back to me. I imagine this other person living in a kind of dream, evolving in a foreign language. If he lives in a dream, I’m inhabited by a drama. The same...
The concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a small predatory class, repeated crises, the inability of politicians to influence the course of events, worsening inequalities and the end of growth are the hallmarks of today's capitalism. Since the fall of...
“It's better to talk to you than to my parents; I wouldn't want to hurt their feelings. “Anguish, when it takes hold of me, is a terrible abyss! “I don't know who I am anymore. It's like voices are talking to me, it's weird; I'm scared” ... Today, teenagers dare to...
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: three men who, outside any democratic process, have occupied the throne of Europe's emperor: President of the ECB. Dutchman Wim Duisenberg resembles Louis XV: a beloved king, but a dilettante whose clumsiness is incompatible with the...
“If the people of this nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution before morning.” Henry Ford Our contemporary liberal democracies have gradually given way to ademocratic, chaotic and illegal governance. By exploiting the...
Alongside Descartes, Kant is the leading author of modernity: his influence on science, morality, politics and aesthetics is considerable. Many of today’s ethical dilemmas (biology, medicine, etc.) make reference to Kantian thought. A knowledge of Kantian philosophy is...
“Neither a god, nor a guru, nor a savior” - who is Buddha? This essay sets out to understand this unclassifiable figure by taking stock of the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine and unravelling its most famous shortcuts. By following Gotama's “Spiritual...
“Wagner sums up modernity. No matter what you do, you have to start by being a Wagnerian.” Nietzsche Glorified in France and Germany in the 19th century, Wagner's image was distorted: the revolutionary art of this close associate of Bakunin would soon be enlisted by...
The internal logic of the Nazi movement and the Third Reich is intertwined with that of Hitler: one cannot be understood without first considering the other. How did an individual with little education or culture, whose life until the age of 30 had been a series of...
A passionate animal lover, Jérôme Pensu denounces the trafficking of wild animals in France, which is worth hundreds of millions of euros every year; he explains the mechanisms at play, the scale of the problem and the techniques used by criminals to make their business...
“Dear Mr. Müller, A friend of my sister’s advised me to write to you, saying you could help me get back to France. My father took my sister and me to Algeria and left us there against our will. He left with our identity cards and passports. I can’t live in Algeria; my...
Prefaces by Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud and Marguerite Bouniol Afterword by Catherine Clément On December 23, 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found murdered at her estate in Toormore, Ireland. Seventeen years later, despite multiple testimonies and a suspect, the...
In this biography, events guru William Perkins recounts the high points of his life and reveals his little secrets.For this new art of the grandiose and the ephemeral, the means deployed are immense and the results magical and spectacular. And all for a single day, a...
The Constitutional Council is the embodiment of wisdom and is responsible for defending the rule of law and the individual freedoms of the French people, by censuring a law if it considers it unconstitutional. Discretionarily appointed by the three highest authorities...
Jean Genet (1910-1986) was one of the most decisive writers of the 20th century. His work, consisting of poems, autobiographical novels, plays and short essays, was the subject of violent attacks, which are still going strong after his death. Some see it as indecent,...
Human beings have always questioned their identity in an attempt to understand themselves better and to develop. With the development of our societies and especially the new technological revolutions, the search for the self has become more perilous and dangerous...
“This little book is a jewel of intelligence, finesse and culture, which takes a technical object without complaint and turns it over and over as Heidegger taught us to do with Van Gogh's shoes. What is striking is the ambition of a meditation on the maps of...
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