Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard

The Iran-Israel crisis has revived an old Western temptation: regime change. The illusion of immediate political transformation, however, runs up against the fact that regimes come and go, while peoples, their history and culture remain.

Political debate requires us to distinguish between what is principled and what is practical, to avoid both pure ideology and technocracy.

Is beauty in things or in our minds? According to British philosopher Roger Scruton, neither option is satisfactory. By pointing out the paradoxical nature of aesthetic judgments, he attempts to overcome the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism.

The European Union is the scene of a major political confrontation between sovereigntists and advocates of a form of international governance. A situation which raises the central and delicate question of sovereignty in the age of globalization.

In a little-known text first published in 1705, Bernard Mandeville set out some of the central themes of what would become economic liberalism. Dive into «The Fable of the Bees».