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Pour l'hebdomadaire britannique The Economist, les responsables du pessimisme et de l'amertume ambiante en France sont à chercher du côté de ses grands écrivains. Les Anglais appellent cela le «mal culturel».
Extrait: Yet miserabilism seems to have a greater hold on the French mind today. I doubt, therefore I am One reason could be the French appetite for brutal self-criticism. From Descartes onwards, doubt is the first philosophical reflex. “The rationalist tradition makes us sceptical; we exist through criticism,” argues Monique Canto-Sperber, a philosopher and director…
L’écrivaine Leïla Slimani, lauréate du Prix Goncourt : “Le Maghreb vit dans la culture de l’hypocrisie et du mensonge”
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With Charity For All
Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give By Ken Stern Doubleday. 258 pp ( Disponible à la BAnQ) The good news is that Americans are a giving crew. According to Ken Stern in his new book, “Charity for All,” there are 1.4 million charities in the United States that take in $1.5 trillion a…