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Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007.

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Democracies in an age of uncertainty: a long term perspective

An interview with Helen Milner et Daniel Treisman

by Jules Naudet, 30 September

Despite the rise of far-right parties and the adaptation of dictatorships to international pressures, political scientists Helen Milner and Daniel Treisman are confident in the future of Democracy, the only political model suited to accommodate the fast-paced innovations that are driving capitalism.

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Ministerial Cabinets: the Grey Area of Government

by Catherine Achin & Delphine Dulong, 15 September

Within French government ministries, cabinet offices are a source of numerous fantasies due to their opaque role and the...

Essay

Classes without wealth

by Nicolas Duvoux & Senmiao Yang, 14 September

Asset-based poverty and economic vulnerability

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Why France Isn’t (Completely) Neoliberal

by Michael C. Behrent, 29 June

Reviewed: Kevin Brookes, Why Neo-Liberalism Failed in France : Political Sociology of the Spread of Neo-Liberal Ideas in France (1974-2012), Palgrave-Macmillan

Dossier : Persistance de l’Ukraine

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For an Ecological Democracy

by Dominique Bourg & Kerry Whiteside, 1 September 2009
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The Nature and Limits of the Majority Principle

by Pasquale Pasquino, 20 April 2011
Essay
To Be A World Citizen: Political Horizon or Abyss?

by Michaël Foessel, 11 September 2014
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The Slow Triumph of the Majority

by Olivier Christin, 11 June 2012
Dossier
Is Protectionism the Solution?

by Florian Mayneris, 17 January 2012
Essay
What is a Public Health Problem?

by Frédéric Orobon, 30 January 2020
Interview
How to Modernize the British Welfare State

by Antoine Colombani, 6 May 2010
Essay
October 2008: the return of the State?

by Bruno Bernardi, 29 January 2009
Interview
Where have the rebels gone?

by Nicolas Delalande & François Jarrige, 21 January 2010
Essay
The Politics of Error

by Henry Laurens, 16 October 2007
Review
Investigating China

by Nolwenn Salmon, 13 December 2011
Interview
Tax Havens: A Guided Tour

by Thomas Vendryes, 24 January 2012
Interview
Teenagers and their sexuality

by Ivan Jablonka, 31 July 2008
Essay
Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

by Pierre Brunet, 21 February 2012
Interview
The American State: Power Obscured

by Thomas Grillot & Pauline Peretz, 15 November 2011
Essay
Drug Legalization? A French Perspective

by Renaud Colson, 7 October 2013

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Faces of the Pandemic

by The editorial team, 17 April 2020

We seem to struggle to take the measure of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its onset was sudden, its effects are uncertain and its...
Press and Democracy

by Émilie Frenkiel & Jeanne Moisand, 13 December 2011

The media industry has undergone dramatic changes in its technologies and business models. To help us understand the effects...
Shifting Perspectives

by The editorial team, 17 August 2020

A Summer Selection, Part V

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Portraits

A Tale of a Chinese Lawyer

by Jean-Luc Domenach, 1 January 2015

About: Judith Bout, Les confessions de maître Zhang, Éditions François Bourin, 2013.
Best of Books & Ideas, part 2: Intellectual Portraits

by Ophélie Siméon, 27 July 2015

A Summer Selection
Arthur C. Danto or the Duality of Worlds

by Laure Bordonaba, 5 September 2016

What distinguishes a blank canvas from an empty frame? A simple object from a readymade? What is this mysterious gap that art...

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The Bingewatch: Lesbian Drama

by Sarah Kessler
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The Inequality of “Human Rights”

by Trevor Jackson
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Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?

by Evan Osnos
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Aquarius Rising

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