Do revolutions wipe out the past?
The full title of the question that was posed to the candidates in the 2021 common competition to integrate the regional Institutes of Political Studies was: “In light of your …
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Is it still possible to preserve secrecy today?
This is the question that has just fallen in the Sciences Po 2021 common competition. More precisely, the title was “In light of your experiences and readings, do you think …
Justice and strength – Pascal
In Fragment 94, Blaise Pascal reflects on the relationship between justice and strength. Here are successive quotations from the original text, accompanied by a literal commentary on the fragment, particularly instructive …
The Black American Revolt
To understand the project of a popular history of the United States, intended by Howard Zinn’s historian, go here a popular history of American society after 1945. This engaged history …
The history of May 68
May 68 was one of the most important events of the current French Republic. Why was May 68 so decisive in the evolution of society? This course on May 68 …
Freedom of expression and Baruch Spinoza
Starting from the principle that “It is not possible […] for a man to abdicate his thought and submit it absolutely to that of others”, Baruch Spinoza introduces the idea …