Poor and guilty

Between the 18e and the 20e century, the fight against poverty in England involves the multiplication of workhouses. Between reception

Japanese crimes, Chinese justice

How did China conduct trials of Japanese war criminals on its territory after 1945? Barak Kushner offers new insights into

These kind gods

Are today’s monotheisms less tolerant than pagan divinities? Throwing the ancient stone into the modern pond, Maurizio Bettini’s essay leads

Partisan Justice

From a “tiny event”, the execution of two traitors from the Aosta Valley in 1943, Sergio Luzzatto delivers a vast

Berlin multicultural

The transformations of German society and Europe can be read on the streets of Berlin. A field of ruins in

The photographic standard

In a collection of articles combining analysis and feminism, American historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau critiques the aesthetics of museum discourse and

The Sahel in which state?

Gregory Mann traces the history of the State in the Sahel, between precolonial imagination, colonial structures and postcolonial conflicts. By

The philosophical inquiry

What is a philosophical inquiry? Claudine Tiercelin, professor at the Collège de France, discusses the mechanisms of acquisition and revision

The Outlaw Company

Generalized legal dumping, monstrous property rights: largely escaping the law, companies have been able to divert it to their own

Return of the ramparts

D. Miller defends a clear position on immigration: states have the right to close their borders, but also, to a