In flesh and in Eros
The obscenity of libertine novels has long discredited them. Wrongly so: the pornographic writings of the Enlightenment freely and joyfully
Holiday workbooks
La Vie des Idées is on vacation. We will resume our publications on Monday, August 26. In the meantime, here
You + me = job?
In a literature review focusing on recent work, A. Roulet presents solutions to improve the matching between supply and demand
Love Across the Color Line
Thanks to the discovery of a rich correspondence, Martha Hodes tells the story of an ordinary American woman, a white
The Long History of Capitalism
If economic analysis had fallen into a dead end with an excess of mathematical formalization, could economic history allow us
The militarization of Russian society
In Russia, commemorations of the Soviet victory are multiplying. Some parades are organized by civilians, others are more official. All
Scientists, from laughter to tears
The scientist is not just a thinking machine: he laughs, he gets anxious, he fears, he gets angry, he makes
Social sources of institutions
A critique of capitalism and nationalism, Thorstein Veblen’s work focused primarily on the analysis of institutions: their strengths, their weaknesses
An Archaeology of Brexit
What if Brexit was inevitable? A book looks back at the ambivalent relations between the United Kingdom and the rest
Roosevelt, the Supreme Court and Gold
An economist traces the process that led the United States Supreme Court to validate, in February 1935, the repeal of