With 132 previously unpublished maps, the book co-edited by Corinne Chuard offers a visual and interactive reading of the past. By combining text and images, it sheds light on historical dynamics whose scope extends far beyond regional borders.
Robert Nozick proposes an original reading of the liberal program: not a minimization of the state, but a political framework that allows everyone to experiment with their own conception of the good life.
The American libertarian movement, led by Murray Rothbard, has moved away from dogmatic anti-statism to ally itself with the populist right. A trajectory that poses a central question for liberals: how far to ally oneself without denying oneself?
At a time of reconfigured political cleavages in Britain and Europe, Thatcherite thinker Mark Littlewood gives his views on the future of the right and the place of liberal-conservatism in Britain and the West.
The intensification of trade after 1989 nurtured the idea of a world governed by cooperation. Today, geopolitical rivalries are overturning this belief and reshaping economic relations.
Faced with the return of protectionism, it's important to remember that there can be no prosperity without trade, competition and work. For liberals, the challenge is not to withdraw, but to forge new alliances with the world of tomorrow.
Consecrating a heritage whose core is individual liberty, liberal-conservatism can form a coherent synthesis rather than a fragile compromise. Here is an outline, drawing on Burke, Scruton and Kolnai as well as Smith, Tocqueville and Hayek.
In Paris, where we met him at length in his childhood neighborhood, Romanticism specialist and literary historian Alain Vaillant reads two centuries of Western culture as the rise and fall of a civilization centered on the individual.
Liberalism had the opportunity to govern alone between 1830 and 1835. Its distrust of the state prevented it from continuing the experiment. Since then, to maintain its influence, it has had to form alliances. But with whom?