Raymond Aron a été l'un des analystes majeurs de la politique contemporaine. Pourtant, il n'a bénéficié que tardivement, et avec parcimonie, des honneurs de la reconnaissance. On peut sans doute discerner trois raisons à cela : d'abord son engagement dans le commentaire d'actualité, qui suscita une suspicion illégitime concernant la qualité de ses travaux ; ensuite son combat, quasi solitaire, contre les marxismes et le communisme soviétique, en faveur des démocraties libérales ; enfin et ...

‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTERFrom Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so in...

In "The Bright Face of Danger," Robert Neilson Stephens crafts a masterful adventure novel set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America. This work combines vivid prose, intricate character development, and a thrilling narrative that explores themes of bravery and moral complexity. The story revolves around the trials of its protagonists as they navigate perilous situations, articulating the tensions between duty and desire in a rapidly changing world. Stephens' literary style exh...

If, on the first Tuesday in June, in the year 1608, anybody had asked me on what business I was riding towards Paris, and if I had answered, "To cut off the moustaches of a gentleman I have never seen, that I may toss them at the feet of a lady who has taunted me with that gentleman's superiorities,"—if I had made this reply, I should have been taken for the most foolish person on horseback in France that day. Yet the answer would have been true, though I accounted myself one of the wisest...

‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTERFrom Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so in...

MONSIEUR HENRI DE LAUNAY SETS OUT ON A JOURNEY