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Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know....
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Pour faire suite au commentaire que j'ai publié sur mon blog le 15 septembre dernier, sur le livre de Emmanuel Todd et de Youssef Courbage, Le Rendez-Vous des Civilisations, j'ai choisi de partager avec vous cet extrait qui parle particulièrement de la...
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“Learning about wilderness is not like learning arithmetic or economics or how the political system works. It is more akin to learning what is beautiful about a Mozart concerto, a Rembrandt painting, or a Shakespearean sonnet. To appreciate wilderness...
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One of the first things I wrote on my blog was a commentary on the book “I, the Divine” by Rabih Alameddine. [1] I promised then that I would post an extract as soon as I got hold of the book again. After a long absence from my library, the book showed...
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