Sublime

ce qui importe le plus, c'est qu'au milieu de cet effroyable ouragan de haine il ait conservé intact son joyau spirituel, sa foi en l'humanité ; et c'est à cette petite lueur que Spinoza, Lessing et Voltaire ont pu allumer leur flambeau, comme le feront par la suite tous les futurs Européens. Érasme est le seul intellectuel de sa génération qui soi

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The reality is that members of the American left have, whether they like it or not, become the new conservatives. At least in economic policy, they are usually the defenders of the status quo. In contrast, some of the so-called “conservatives” are the radicals seeking major change; at a recent public event, I heard two African American intellectual

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The most direct method for comprehending a world in which not all human beings are homo economicus would therefore appear to involve a return to some version of the older tradition. However, why did the older tradition fail in the first place? After all, it seemed to ask some obvious and important questions. How could these questions simply be aban... See more

La Révolution française est la première tentative — certes restée largement programmatique — d’affirmer une conception moderne de droits à la protection sociale. Robespierre, minoritaire, proposa même que la subsistance, « dette sacrée », ne soit pas simplement due aux « citoyens malheureux », mais à tous les membres de la société [Borgetto et Lafo

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Much more than the state’s honor was at stake, however, and Ben-Gurion had failed to recognize the full gravity of the mistake he had made. By 2014, Haredim constituted approximately 15 percent of Israel’s Jewish population, and the percentage was growing; the average fertility rate for Haredi women was 6.2 children, while for the non-Haredi Jewish

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Agassiz produced a stream of articles for Atlantic Monthly and carried the fight to the lecture circuit, his popularity soaring to new heights. The articles, published as a book, Methods of Study in Natural History, went through nineteen editions. To know that Agassiz of Harvard decried the theories of Charles Darwin, that he, of all learned men, m

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Une nature de cette magnifique ampleur doit être prodigue et Balzac l’est dans tous les sens du mot. Il n’y a qu’un domaine où il ait bien été obligé de s’habituer à l’économie : les relations de société. Quiconque n’a comme lui, ainsi qu’il l’a dit une fois, « qu’une heure par jour à donner au monde », ne trouve pas de place pour elles dans sa vie

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When he was thirty-two years old, Thomy Lafon was listed in the 1842 city directory as a merchant. His mother was born a free woman in Haiti and had arrived with other migrants post-revolution. Lafon grew wealthy through real estate. The Holy Family nursing home was the result of one of many of his charitable donations made in service of Black peop

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Je hais, pour ma part, ces systèmes absolus, qui font dépendre tous les événements de l’histoire de grandes causes premières se liant les unes aux autres par une chaîne fatale, et qui suppriment, pour ainsi dire, les hommes de l’histoire du genre humain. Je les trouve étroits dans leur prétendue grandeur, et faux sous leur air de vérité mathématiqu

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