LLMs deal essentially with language but seems amenable to graphics as well. To such an extent that one may wonder…
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“Who were We?”, forthcoming at Fayard in May 2018
Who were we? A defense and illustration of the human race
Abstract
How do we respond to the very real threat of the extinction of humankind? In Le dernier qui s’en va éteint la lumière (2016), I characterized this way of “soft”, at the limit of pure and simple denial, accompanied by […]
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Where is the French revolution on the move heading? by Pierre Sarton du Jonchay
Guest post. The French version is here.
The generalisation of unemployment insurance to all entrepreneurs is a break with ordo-liberalism and a practical and paradigmatic entry into the universal knowledge-based economy. Work recognized as such by labour law is no longer defined as a subordination to an employer who is the sole […]
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Let us explain to Germany what we expect of it TODAY
Published here in French.
For ten years now, we have been hearing the same refrain from other European leaders to justify their procrastination towards the German authorities: “After the elections, things will be clearer”! However, from German election to German election, things are not clearer once the vote has been completed, but […]
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Statesmanship is back! China and Saudi Arabia
Comments can be made here.
José d’Acosta, a Jesuit, was a missionary in Peru and Mexico in the second half of the 16th century. His contact with the Aztec culture was the cause of his profound disarray. “What is the meaning of the abominable cruelty taking place every day in front of […]
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China’s 19th Communist Party Congress during my journey in China, by Michel Saloff-Coste
Guest post. Also on his own blog.
China’s 19th Communist Party Congress ended Tuesday, marking the start of a new era led by President Xi Jinping that was catalyzed, in part, by President Donald Trump, Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University, told The New York Times. Trump’s “negative attitude […]
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Catalan leaders in court facing crimes of more than 30 years in prison, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post. Open to comments here.
Disloyalty or Dissent?
Political dissent is still evidently constitutionally defined as disloyalty in some instances in Spain. Is this a sound basis for the rule of law in a democracy? Discuss with reference to the Spanish constitution of 1978 and the founding principles of the European […]
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The Chinese Exception
(Published in French on October 18th 2017 in Le Monde as Qu’est-ce qui met les Chinois de si bonne humeur ? and in L’Écho as L’exception chinoise)
It is hard to imagine that there would be today a people somewhere approving without any soul-searching the policy pursued by its […]
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The Best Laid Schemes (Part 2), by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
As may be readily gathered from the cartoon on the front page of today’s issue of The New European, which is what Brexiteers refer to as a Remoaning rag, the notion of halting the Brexit process appears to be gaining traction, at least […]
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The Best Laid Schemes (Part 1), by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
Improbable though it may now seem, the supreme leader of the British was only recently reckoned by many of her (mostly southern) subjects to be a political magician who might well contrive to deliver what was conceived of in the heart of darkest England as a successful hard Brexit and thereby miraculously bring […]
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Where There’s a Will (Part 2), by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already declared that she is determined that there will be a further Scottish independence referendum and at a time chosen by the Scottish Parliament.
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