Retracing life, writing history
The biography of Elihu Palmer, North American free thinker of XVIIIe century, brings to life the intellectual and spiritual conflicts
Engines and liars
How can we interpret the “dieselgate” scandal beyond the greed of manufacturers? Samuel Klebaner departs from normative condemnations to carry
Greatness of small gestures
The massacres of civilians, according to Jacques Semelin, obey a “grammar” conceived as a mental process which leads to the
The long and arduous road to participation
While we talk a lot about participatory democracy, political theory seems to have neglected the question of mass deliberation. Cristina
Monks, demons and wonders
Between visionary literature, pastoral dialogue and hagiographic life, an unpublished document from XIIIe century takes us into a monastery infested
The union of choirs
Choral practice in Athens was much more than a dramatic process: it was a civic and collective experience, a sort
Good leaves and big money
Who owns the major audiovisual and press media in France? With what impact for pluralism and independence of information? An
Of bees and men
The bee is our environmental sentinel. If she dies, so do we. Pollution, ravages of insecticides, decline in biodiversity: if
From wakefulness to insomnia
For a long time, humanity divided its nights into two stages; It was only with the industrial revolution, and the
Judging anti-Semitism and racism
Anti-racist legislation, from the Marchandeau decree-law in 1939 to the so-called Pleven law in 1972, illustrates the evolution of consciences