Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

"Un Homme"

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Pomplamoose





Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Sunday, September 06, 2020

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

English Translation of Le Figaro Interview with Pierre Manent

First Things: Time to Wake Up by Pierre Manent

Pierre Manent: While waiting for things to unfold we note the return of the least likeable features of our State. In the name of a health emergency, a state of emergency has in fact been established. In the name of this emergency, the most primitive and brutal of measures has been taken: general confinement under police surveillance. The speed, the comprehensiveness, and even the eagerness with which the repressive apparatus was set in motion painfully contrast with the delays, the lack of preparation, and the indecisiveness of our policies of sanitation, whether concerning masks, tests, or potential treatments. Innocent or benign missteps are punished with exorbitant fines. We are forbidden from leaving our residences without passports, but the reestablishment of national borders is still considered a mortal sin. I do not believe the crisis is rehabilitating that State. 

As for the nation, it has been abandoned, discredited, and delegitimized for two generations—just as any thought for industrial policy has been abandoned, discredited, and delegitimized. We have renounced the very idea of national independence. Oh, to be nothing more than a soft and pliant node of specialized expertise in the great network of global trade! And above all, the flux must never slow down! Are we discovering that we are dependent on China for almost everything we need? But we have organized ourselves in order to be dependent! We have willed it! Do you believe that, when we emerge weakened by the economic destruction brought about by the health crisis, there will be many who will be willing to reverse the course that we have been following for forty years?

Friday, November 08, 2019

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Friday, February 01, 2019

Meriem Laribi

Friday, January 11, 2019

Sunday, December 09, 2018

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Posting This

just because it is in French...



This too...

Friday, September 01, 2017

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Friday, May 26, 2017