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Guy Sorman

Guy Sorman

Guy Sorman, a French philosopher and economist, is the author of Economics Does Not Lie.
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  • The End of Green Ideology

    Series: Earth in the Balance
    2011-06-17
    The meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant has sent political aftershocks racing around the globe. More often than not, however, the shocks have been ideological, with no basis in science.... read
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  • The Hard Right Goes Soft

    Series: The World in Words
    2011-03-28
    Marine Le Pen is seeking the same path to power for France's National Front as that traveled by far-right parties in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark, all of which first became “soft” populist parties. And President Nicolas Sarkozy may be helping her find it.... read
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  • Dreaming of a New Edo Era

    Series: The Asian Century
    2010-11-08
    In mid-November, G-20 leaders convene for the first time in South Korea - a choice of venue that tacitly acknowledges the country's remarkable success in becoming an economic powerhouse and a vibrant democracy. Japan, with its stagnating economy, dithering politicians, and complacent workforce, should take note.... read
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  • The Welfare State, RIP

    Series: The World in Words
    2010-10-08
    It is usually easier to see the beginning of something than the end of it. Born in 1945 in post-war Britain, the welfare state met its end in Britain this week, when British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s repudiated the concept of the “universal benefit,” the idea that everyone, not just the poor, should benefit from social protection.... read
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  • Big Money Merges with Big Brother

    Series: The World in Words
    2010-09-22
    Microsoft is the latest high-tech company to cast its lot with an authoritarian government in the name of maximizing profits. Capitalism, we must remember, is always a trade-off: we must live with unethical behavior by money-making corporations, which provide us with new tools that can be used by democratic activists and despots alike.... read
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  • Europe’s Vision Deficit

    Series: The World in Words
    2010-07-19
    What makes Europe's desolate economic landscape even gloomier is European leaders’ striking inability to explain it to their citizens. Indeed, it seems that here lies the seminal reason for their plunging poll ratings: they seem to lead nowhere, because they have no vision on which to draw.... read
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  • What Asian Century?

    Series: The Asian Century
    2010-04-01
    It is almost taken for granted nowadays that this is to be the “Asian Century,” marking an irreversible political/economic shift in global power from West to East. But the Asian Century is a myth: we have entered the first Global Century, which is such a new phenomenon that we cling to old concepts in order to describe our emerging world.... read
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  • The Treason of the Magistrates

    Series: The World in Words
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    2010-02-02
    Justice in democratic countries is supposed to be independent, but some prosecutors and investigating magistrates conveniently forget this. Indeed many among them are deeply enmeshed in politics, pursuing agendas – and vendettas – of their own. ... read
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  • The Twilight of France’s Republican Aristocracy

    Series: The World in Words
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    2009-11-11
    No tumbrils have appeared in Paris’s Place de la Concorde, but something like a revolution is underway in France. Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the conviction of former Defense Minister Charles Pasqua – and now even former President Jacques Chirac has learned that he is not immune from prosecution. ... read
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