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Society
Social change, demographics, education, labour, migration and cohesion.
The Society section follows demographic and social change, education, labour, migration, inequality and social cohesion. It examines how these dynamics transform institutions, territories and living conditions.
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The Family Under Pressure
The Family Under Pressure
Couples, parenthood, friendship, solitude and transmission: contemporary societies are not merely changing the way people live. They are progressively redistributing functions that the family performed for centuries. Behind individual emancipation therefore lies a major collectiv
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Demographics: the great shift
Some transformations arrive with a crash. Others derive their power precisely from their slowness. Demography belongs to the second category. It does not trigger a market collapse in a single day, bring down a government overnight or immediately set financial markets on edge. Yet
Social Protection: The Invisible Contract
Illness, an accident, job loss, the birth of a child, an inability to work, or simply old age. Behind each of these events lies the same question: what happens to an individual when income disappears while basic needs remain? For centuries, societies answered this question throug
AI and the End of the Privilege to Create
For a long time, creation was a rare activity, not because ideas were scarce, but because turning them into works required resources that were difficult to assemble. Writing a book took months or years. Composing and recording music required instruments, technical mastery and oft
Meta and Social Media Addiction: A Trial Without Appeal?
For a long time, the case against social media was argued far from the courtroom. It belonged to parents, psychologists, teachers, researchers and, sometimes, users themselves. Platforms were accused of fragmenting attention, invading the night, turning social comparison into a p
Naval Ravikant: Wealth, Freedom and Power in the Age of Digital Leverage
Naval Ravikant has never built an industrial empire, controlled a global social network or become the public face of a technological conglomerate. His influence is more difficult to measure than market capitalization or political authority. It lies in the circulation of ideas. En
Peter Thiel: Power, Technology and the Revolt of Silicon Valley’s Elites
Peter Thiel is difficult to fit into a single category. Entrepreneur, investor, billionaire, libertarian intellectual, political donor, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Facebook’s first major outside investor and a central figure at Founders Fund, he simultaneously belongs to t
Democracy Without Readers: Information, Attention and Public Life in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Never before has humanity had access to so much information. Never has it been so easy to learn the result of an election on the other side of the world, consult a company’s accounts, read the text of a law, follow a war almost in real time, or access the publications of an inter
Rights, Women, Family: The Recomposition of the Social Order
For centuries, in most societies, the individual was not the fundamental unit of the social order. People belonged first to a family, lineage, community, caste, clan or religious order. Their rights, obligations, property, marriage and sometimes even occupation were largely deter
Bonnie & Clyde: Behind the Myth, America in the Great Depression
Introduction — Two Criminals Who Became an American Legend They died young, together, on a road in Louisiana. Bonnie Parker was 23. Clyde Barrow was 25. On May 23, 1934, six lawmen were waiting for them near Gibsland, in Bienville Parish. When the Ford V8 driven by Clyde slowed d
Elon Musk: Between Technological Power, Political Influence and Global Polarisation
Elon Musk can no longer be analysed simply as a successful entrepreneur. His influence now extends across the automotive industry, energy, space launch systems, satellite communications, artificial intelligence, social media and, indirectly, geopolitical power relations. Through
The Global Jet Set: The Mirror of a Borderless World
Over the past decades, globalization has transformed far more than trade, supply chains, and financial markets. It has also given rise to a social group whose lifestyle extends well beyond national borders: the global jet set. Comprising ultra-high-net-worth individuals, corporat
Social Media: Between Progress, Influence, and Social Fragmentation
Over the past two decades, social media has evolved from a collection of communication platforms into one of the fundamental infrastructures of modern society. It influences how people access information, debate ideas, consume goods and services, work, maintain relationships, and