Books & ideas

Moral Socialism

Julien Le Mauff — 2026-02-18T15:55:56Z

How can we move beyond the double deadlock of state socialism and market capitalism? For Lea Ypi, returning to Kant and the Enlightenment offers a perspective to provide a new ground to freedom as social responsibility, and to open up towards a cosmopolitan horizon against the authoritarianism of profit.

Expanding International Bureaucracy

Marieke Louis — 2025-11-14T10:40:11Z

As multilateral cooperation is increasingly under attack, Katerina Linos challenges certain misperceptions about the role of international institutions, particularly the European Union, and emphasizes their capacity for action in times of multiple crises.

Humanities and Computational Analysis

Bruno Cousin — 2025-10-03T09:00:00Z

While we have entered the age of generative AI, it is worth having a look at how computers can help literature scholars and intellectual historians to explain the life of concepts, aesthetics and genres.

The Urban Condition of Muslims in India

Jules Naudet — 2025-09-12T09:03:01Z

According to Thomas Blom Hansen, Indian cities have become spaces of exclusion, fear, and sharpened enmity. He describes how Muslims are victims of an entanglement of communal violence, state complicity, and systemic discrimination.

For a participatory Architecture

Émilie Frenkiel — 2025-03-21T09:00:00Z

How can we move beyond abstract architecture, where buildings are constructed without their audiences? Peter Ferretto's method is based on observation, engagement, and the osmosis between teaching, practice, research, and social impact.

Decarbonizing Economics

Thomas Vendryes — 2025-02-07T09:30:00Z

While public authorities currently seem to prefer to use incentives rather than constraints to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, economists are developing increasingly effective tools to measure the effectiveness of these policies.

The origins of the California dream

Nicolas Delalande — 2024-10-31T08:38:57Z

The “California dream” does not date back to the Gold Rush of the 19^th century, but only to the 20^th, and is more a matter of criticism than enthusiasm. Louis Warren invites us to put this myth into perspective, and to be wary of the tendency to see California as the laboratory of the United States.

Castes and State in India

Jules Naudet — 2024-04-19T07:30:00Z

Quotas in India contribute to the emancipation of lower castes while producing perverse effects that are difficult to control. Rohini Somanathan questions the right balance between targeted positive discrimination policies and public policies with a universal vocation.

Black Institutions in the United States

Annabelle Allouch — 2024-03-01T09:30:00Z

How did African-Americans attempt to overturn the relations of racial domination in the United States? From the post-war period onwards, by creating cultural and educational institutions specific to their community, which are still useful today in the fight against discrimination.

The Ghosts of Colonisation

Igor Martinache & Jules Naudet — 2024-01-19T09:00:00Z

What traces have colonial enterprises left behind? By confronting the public history of colonialism in the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe with that of his own family, Simukai Chigudu reveals the repressed part of the colonial legacy and how it continues to fuel the cycle of violence.