The election to the presidency in October 1970 of Salvador Allende, leader of the Socialist Party and candidate of the Popular Unity coalition, thrust Chile to the threshold of an unprecedented "revolution by constitutional methods." The Chilean Revo...
Written by fictional character "Xavier de C***" as a plea to an American president, Empire 2.0 is a scorching satire of totalitarianism. In it, the hero, a Frenchman, renounces his citizenship to become an American. This breezy book argues that resis...
In a scathingly funny update of Jonathan Swift's greatest satire, one of France's leading philosophers observes that modern society is burdened by numerous questions of care for the elderly. How to pay for their staggering medical bills? How to en...