Guy Sorman, a French philosopher and economist, is the author of Economics Does Not Lie.
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Commentaries by Guy Sorman
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Islands of Isolation
PARIS – The Japanese and the British may seem very different, but a closer look reveals something akin to a parallel destiny for these two i…
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Back to Utopia?
PARIS – France no longer claims center stage in world history, but it remains influential beyond its national borders. From the eighteenth c…
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The End of Green Ideology
PARIS – The meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant has sent political aftershocks racing around the globe. More often than not, however, th…
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The Hard Right Goes Soft
PARIS – The central paradox of French politics was confirmed once again on March 27. In a nationwide vote to select local authorities (the s…
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Dreaming of a New Edo Era
SEOUL – In mid-November, all eyes will shift to Seoul, when G-20 leaders convene for the first time in the South Korean capital. The choice …
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The Welfare State, RIP
PARIS – 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 i…
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Big Money Merges with Big Brother
PARIS – All over the world, Internet users entertain romantic delusions about cyberspace. To most of us Web surfers, the Internet provides a…
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Europe’s Vision Deficit
PARIS – In the Western part of Europe – the part that former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld maliciously labeled “Old Europe” – almo…
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What Asian Century?
PARIS – It is almost taken for granted nowadays that this is to be the “Asian Century,” marking an irreversible political/economic shift in …
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The Treason of the Magistrates
PARIS – In democracies, justice is supposed to be independent. Some prosecutors and investigating magistrates, however, conveniently forget…
What is the West?
Paulo Sérgio: In China's Cultural Revolution (1949) 1966-1976, did that country become a little bit more western - liberal - in thought experimentation? Is its incredible economic success/reawakening proof of this?…
Islands of Isolation
m r: The article is devoid of scholarly rigour linking irrelevant aspects to fit authors outlandish thesis. Thanks to the two other commenters defining and defending Japanese/ British ends respectively. …