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Pour Tocqueville, l’histoire est faite par des mouvements de fond – à son époque, la montée de la société démocratique –, mais aussi par les dirigeants. Ainsi s’expliquent à la fois le pluralisme des institutions et le destin différent de pays aussi proches que la France et le Royaume-Uni. Aussi n’est-il pas moins important de comprendre les hommes

Nicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)

Letting us pick our own experts as a society leaves us listening to the loudest voice, not the most correct or beneficial.

Alex Morris • 3_TRENDS_Vol.12: Alex Morris: Assisted Socializing, Memory Management + Professional Amateurs

Nos démocraties libérales ressemblent de plus en plus aux « sociétés civiles bourgeoises » décrites par Hegel, des sociétés dont les deux figures principales sont l’économiste et le juriste, pas le politique ou le citoyen.

Raphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)

The sociobiologist E. O. Wilson said we are the only one of nine tribal species that believes an enemy is necessary for the tribe to survive, and where no natural enemy exists, we create one. Wilson said if we do not get ahold of that, we lose the species and the planet as we know it.

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The news coverage given to Brock’s fake news focus provides fresh evidence of how he’s truly set himself apart in the smear industry. As a political operative, he seems able to pick up the phone or send an email and get his message covered in outlets ranging from Politico to the New York Times. There are no other liberals or conservative counterpar

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

22 Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padro-i-Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao, “Accountability in an Authoritarian Regime: The Impact of Local Electoral Reforms in Rural China,” Yale University (2010), manuscript.

Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

There’s record of only one reporter in the whole bunch pushing back: the late Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed (who died nine months later in a fiery, single-car crash).