Do revolutions wipe out the past?

The full title of the subject that was posed to the candidates in the 2021 common competition to integrate the regional Institutes of Political Studies was: “In light of your …

Justice and strength – Pascal

In fragment 94, Blaise Pascal reflects on the relationship between justice and strength. Here are successive quotations from the original text, accompanied by a literal commentary on the fragment, particularly …

The Black American Revolt

To understand the project of a popular history of the United States, intended by Howard Zinn’s historian, go here A popular history of American society after 1945. This engaged history …

What is the Philosopher King?

The philosopher king is a concept that comes to us from Plato. In the Republic, book V, 473d, Plato insists that philosophy and kingship must coincide. Otherwise, the kingdom will …