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Michael C. Behrent

Michael Behrent is an American historian. A PhD from New York University, he now teaches in the history department of the Appalachian State University. He specializes in European intellectual history and modern France.
– His web page .

– His second blog, on French politics

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Review
Unionization for Everyone?

by Jean Heffer, 12 May 2014

About: Jean-Christian Vinel, The Employee: A Political History, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Essay 〉Society
When French Banks Encounter their Clients

by Georges Gloukoviezoff, 24 March 2014

Bank Employees and Financial Inclusion
Review
The Missing Play

by Patrick Boucheron, 10 March 2014

About: Roger Chartier, Cardenio entre Cervantès et Shakespeare. Histoire d’une pièce perdue, Gallimard, 2011.
Review
The Wisdom of Crowds

by Juliette Roussin, 20 February 2014

About: Jon Elster and Hélène Landemore, eds., Collective Wisdom. Principles and Mechanisms, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Review 〉Philosophy
Voting: Number or Reason?

by Didier Mineur, 25 October 2013

About: H. Landemore et J. Elster dir., “La sagesse collective”, Raison publique, Presses de l’Université Paris Sorbonne, 2010.
Essay 〉Philosophy
In Praise of Social Sciences

by Philippe Descola, 21 October 2013

Should we expect the social sciences in general, and anthropology in particular, to enlighten us about society’s problems and...
Essay 〉Politics 〉History
Reform in China: Sluggish or Dynamic?

by Émilie Frenkiel, 11 October 2013

An Interview with Lucien Bianco
Review 〉International
Terrorism from Robespierre to Al-Qaida

by Perrine Simon-Nahum, 12 September 2013

About: Mireille Delmas-Marty and Henry Laurens, eds., Terrorismes. Histoire et droit, CNRS Éditions, 2010
Essay 〉Society
Urban Policy in France and Great Britain

by Renaud Epstein, 4 July 2013

A Ten-Year Evaluation
Essay 〉Politics
Civic Mobilization in Russia: Protest and Daily Life

by Karine Clément, 14 June 2013

Has Russia, amidst rising social discontent and pervasive economic crisis, rediscovered collective mobilization? In this essay,...
Essay 〉Society
Fighting for a Fair Wage

by Chloé Froissart, 7 March 2013

The Changing Demands of the Chinese Working Class
Essay 〉Arts
Artistic Beauty as a Political Weapon

by Vanina Géré, 6 December 2012

Contemporary Art from 1960 to 2010
Interview 〉Philosophy
Citizen Balibar

by Nicolas Duvoux & Pascal Sévérac, 26 November 2012

An Interview with Étienne Balibar
Essay 〉Economy
The Day Income Gaps Were Finally Capped

by Jean Gadrey, 15 October 2012

As we enter the twenty-second century, the need for capping income gaps to guarantee social cohesion and preserve the...
Review 〉International
Who Will Write Our History?

by Audrey Kichelewski, 3 October 2012

About: S. Kassow, Qui écrira notre histoire ? Les archives secrètes du ghetto de Varsovie, Grasset, 2011
Essay 〉Society
Why We Abolished Marriage

by François de Singly, 24 September 2012

A Private “Eutopia”
Essay 〉History
The Age of Youth

by Thomas Grillot, 10 July 2012

An Interview with Ludivine Bantigny, Historian
Interview 〉Philosophy
The Ethnography of Disasters

by David Bornstein & Florent Guénard, 18 June 2012

An Interview with Sandrine Revet
Essay 〉Politics
A New Indigenous Question in France’s Overseas Territories?

by Benoît Trépied, 13 June 2012

Whether they live in French Guyana, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, or Polynesia, indigenous peoples have been...
Review 〉Philosophy
Promises, Promises

by Vincent Boyer, 8 June 2012

About: Hanoch Sheinman (ed.), Promises and Agreements. Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press.
Essay 〉Politics
Is the Middle Class a Victim of Taxation?

by Antoine Bozio, 28 May 2012

What do we really know about the costs and benefits of redistribution for the middle class? Two recent studies demonstrate that...
Review 〉History
Dutchmen and Javanese: Connected History

by Philippe Minard, 19 May 2012

About: Romain Bertrand, L’Histoire à parts égales, Seuil.
Review 〉Society
The Numbers of Crime

by Bilel Benbouzid, 8 May 2012

About: Ph. Robert et R. Zauberman, Mesurer la délinquance, Presses de Sciences Po
Review 〉History
A So-Called Silence

by Simon Perego, 4 May 2012

About: Hasia R. Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love. American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962, New York University Press.
Interview 〉Society
Giving Gifts

by Pauline Peretz, 20 April 2012

Debate between Anne Bory, Nicolas Guilhot, Sabine Rozier and Olivier Zunz
Review 〉History
The Soviet Union: A Shaky Welfare State

by Grégory Dufaud, 10 April 2012

About: Dorena Caroli, Histoire de la protection sociale en Union soviétique (1917-1939), L’Harmattan.
Campaigning for Ideas 〉Politics
The Fight against Corruption

by David Bornstein & Ivan Jablonka, 6 April 2012

Interviews with Philippe Aghion and William Bourdon
Interview 〉Arts
What Images Show

by Philippe Simay, 5 April 2012

An Interview with Philippe Descola
Essay 〉Economy
How Should Executives Be Paid?

by Claire Célérier, 13 March 2012

The explosion of executive pay in recent decades in all Western countries has been the object of considerable criticism. But it...
Review 〉History
The 993^rd Man

by Ivan Jablonka, 9 March 2012

About: N. Mariot & C. Zalc, Face à la persécution. 991 Juifs dans la guerre, Odile Jacob.
Campaigning for Ideas 〉Society
Islam and the Republic: Towards a Reasonable Accommodation

by David Bornstein & Pauline Peretz, 2 March 2012

An Interview with John Bowen
Essay 〉Society
J14 in Tel-Aviv

by Sylvaine Bulle, 28 February 2012

A Different Kind of Protest Movement?
Campaigning for Ideas 〉Society
Housing: Helping Those Who Really Need It

by David Bornstein & Pauline Peretz, 24 February 2012

An Interview with Fanny Bugeja
Essay 〉Politics
Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

by Pierre Brunet, 21 February 2012

Far from being natural, the compatibility between the legal orders of the European Union and member states is the result of...
Interview 〉Society
The Empirical Sociology of Critique

by Nicolas Duvoux, 14 February 2012

An Interview with Luc Boltanski
Campaigning for Ideas 〉Politics
Getting Employment Going Again

by Ivan Jablonka, 10 February 2012

An Interview with Philippe Askenazy
Campaigning for Ideas 〉Politics
Reforming the French Police

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz, 3 February 2012

An Interview with Fabien Jobard, sociologist
Review 〉Society
Gangs of Paris or Thereabout

by Michel Kokoreff, 31 January 2012

About: Marwan Mohammed, La formation des bandes, PUF.
Review 〉Politics
Poverty Experts in the United States

by Jacques Rodriguez, 26 January 2012

About: Romain Huret, La fin de la pauvreté?, Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
Campaigning for Ideas 〉Politics
Are we Represented?

by Émilie Frenkiel & Ivan Jablonka, 6 January 2012

An interview with Loïc Blondiaux

Translations on La Vie des idées

Essai 〉Société
La politique de la ville en France et en Grande-Bretagne

par Renaud Epstein, le 4 juin 2013

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