Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnos...

When Mathieu followed his king to war, he knew theCrusades were holy, that God went with him, and thathe would return to the arms of his truest love. 800 yearslater, enslaved by the demon Gadreel, all Mathieu knowsis pain.After winning his freedom, Mathieu emerges from thedark void of captivity, only to find himself facing the soulof the love he left behind, in the eyes of Jenn Bartlett. Canhe do the terrifying thing she asks of him,...

La jeunesse irait mal, entend-on : aucun travail, pas de perspective, plus de rêve. Qu’en est-il exactement ? Le mythe de la jeunesse aurait-il disparu ? Les jeunes n’éprouveraient-ils plus le besoin d’aller au bout d’eux-mêmes ? À partir de portraits et d’expériences personnelles, la Revue des Deux Mondes propose d’ausculter la jeunesse d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, de regarder ses parts d’ombre et de lumière.Jean-Yves Boriaud nous conduit au coeur de l’Antiqu...