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
The homeland of equality
While many see America as a land of freedom, Sean Wilentz questions the passion for American equality. He thus takes
The partitions of Yemen
Divided by war, a hotbed among others of transnational Islamism, Yemen is also a country of flux whose relationship with
The Kurdish International
What are the historical lines of rupture and continuity of the PKKfrom its founding to the present day? Sociologist Olivier
What to do on Sunday?
Most French people do not want to work on Sundays, but many would like to benefit from more services on
Communism, capitalism and corruption
Taking at face value the bombastic official statements concerning corruption within the Chinese Communist Party, a book paints a dark
Resisting in the forest
It is through a network of infrastructures that power reduces local particularities, exploits resources, and fights autonomy. Living in territories
Access to things
By considering things too much, we forget what makes us perceive them. This is the idea that the young Fritz