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Dès le début, je comprends en l’écoutant, en le lisant que nous n’avons pas le même rapport à la politique. Il pense qu’elle doit accompagner et amplifier les tendances de l’époque. Je suis certain, au contraire, qu’elle doit être contracyclique, qu’elle a pour mission de corriger ou d’inverser ce cours des choses. En le regardant pendant la campag

To fight for mental and moral changes after policy is changed means fighting alongside growing benefits and

Starting in the 1960s, the social and legal institutions of America were remade to try to eliminate unfair choices by people in positions of responsibility. The new legal structures reflected a deep distrust of human authority in even its more benign forms—a teacher’s authority in the classroom, or a manager’s judgments about who’s doing the job, o

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La construction d’un champ politique clivé non pas entre des progressistes (ou des « libéraux », au sens américain du terme) plus ou moins radicaux, et des conservateurs plus ou moins décidés, entre l’électorat du parti démocrate et celui du parti républicain (ou, en termes européens, entre la gauche et la droite), mais entre un centre modéré et ra

When Erwann works with national governments to create their risk management strategies, he suggests they start by asking five questions: (1) What risks do we face and where? (2) What assets and populations are exposed and to what degree? (3) How vulnerable are they? (4) What financial burden do these risks place on individuals, businesses, and the

David Keith, a professor of applied physics at Harvard, has been described as “perhaps the foremost proponent of geoengineering,” a characterization that he bristles at. “I’m a proponent of reality,” he wrote in a letter to the editor of The New York Times in 2015. Keith founded the university’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program in 2017, and he