What the scam contains
The “Queen’s Necklace” affair, the Ponzi scheme, and Madoff’s schemes were made possible by specific socio-economic structures. These fascinating stories
The “vitriolic moment”
The assault, which involves throwing sulfuric acid in a victim’s face, entered the French public eye at the end of
Nations on paper
From the middle of the XIXe century, statistics and its derivatives made it possible to strengthen the State by quantifying
Plants are not stupid
Through this phenomenology of plant life, the philosopher Florence Burgat reminds us that plants are defined above all by what
The Investigator, the Nazi and His Son
Lawyer Philippe Sands, grandson of persecuted Jews, investigated the character of Otto von Wächter, Austrian SS and governor of Krakow
Belgrade-Paris: Left-wing experiences
Introduced in Yugoslavia in 1949, the principle of self-management in companies fascinated large sections of the French left until the
Political authority, moral authority
Renaissance historian James Hankins delivers a considerable volume and sheds new light on the political content of Italian humanism, from
Exile in my neighborhood
A disused high school is occupied by migrants. A sociologist studies the resonances on the life of the neighborhood. If
Democracy gone astray
As the United States presidential election approaches, The Life of Ideas/Books & Ideas And Public Books propose a joint dossier
Rivette the intransigent
The texts of the filmmaker and critic Jacques Rivette are brought together for the first time. For him, “every lucid