Analyse

Is a political system based on individual freedom desirable? For Plato, no: 2,500 years ago, he already saw democracy as a chaotic political organization leading to disorder, then tyranny.

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As a major critic of parliamentary democracy, Charles Maurras« Provençal roots and his »organizing empiricism" fueled his contestation of the republican regime in the name of living communities.

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Liberals have always been suspicious of unlimited forms of power, whether monarchical, revolutionary or democratic. They have been the most vigorous advocates of the strict limitation of power, whoever holds it and however it is organized.

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Often denounced as the natural enemy of prosperity, protectionism lends itself to caricature. When taken seriously, however, it raises some interesting questions for free-trade orthodoxy.

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American tariffs symbolize the resurgence of mercantilism. Imperial withdrawal, scarcity of resources, militarized trade: with the end of free trade, the global economy is reverting to its old reflexes. A zero-sum game in which all lose, except those who dictate the rules.

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What if modernity's Achilles' heel wasn't so much economic or social as demographic? British essayist Louise Perry shows how the declining birth rate in the West could precipitate the end of the model that has shaped two centuries of progress.

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The economic success of the West was made possible by the valorization of bourgeois virtues and freedom. They were ignited in 1848. Switzerland is a perfect example.

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