Good customers
Corruption, cronyism, vote buying… these illegal political practices in our modern democracies are still relevant today, and structure the political
The burden of proof
The assize court offers a magnificent ethnological terrain: between testimonies, expert reports, confessions and debates, the search for truth is
An effective medicine?
How is the effectiveness of drugs assessed? This question, which is now central, is not new, as shown in this
Human, transhuman
What is transhumanism, and why shouldn’t humans be natural cyborgs? Far from technophobic reflexes and artificial intelligence daydreams, a new
The long time of Algeria
By tracing the history of Algerians from 1516 to 2012, this book reveals continuities across the Ottoman, French and independent
Liberal imperialism
Does the defense of freedom authorize interference in the affairs of another state? Can it go so far as to
The Gates of the Nation
How does the Republic consider its “others”? Based on an ethnographic study of the mechanisms for combating racial discrimination and
Democracies under influence
This new file of The Life of Ideas presents an overview of practices of influence, intermediation and corruption between the
The historian of socialisms
Madeleine Rebérioux’s work will no longer suffer from its dispersion. A rich anthology brings together some forty of her texts,
Poor rich
A sociologist investigates the ways that New York’s upper-class elites have found to cope with the guilt that comes with