Let us observe Nagorno-Karabakh. Let us observe it all of us attentively, because nowhere else is it clearer to see how deeply the world has evolved – a world that has become so utterly improbable – than in this micro-territory of every religious, cultural and national passion imaginable.
Read MoreThe game is not over yet but we are coming out of the nightmare. The game is not over yet, since a large part of the Republican electorate remains convinced that victory has been stolen from them by a conspiracy of occult forces; since Donald Trump will do everything he can to give credit to these delusions and to stir up tensions; since the Democrats may still have to govern against a Republican Senate, and since in any case Joe Biden will have to reckon with the deep division of America, the health disaster bequeathed to him by his predecessor, and the international discredit, above all, that the last four years have brought to the United States.
Read MoreIs it Joe Biden who may have seemed too unobtrusive? Is it because of the age and personality of this man that there was finally such a solidity of the Trump vote instead of the blue wave that the polls were announcing?
Read MorePessimism is intellectually chic. Optimism is never regarded as realistic. Optimism is always regarded as naïve but today, too bad for me, I will be optimistic – optimistic but not blind nor naïve.
Read MoreThey are running out of steam. Of course, one should not count their chickens before they are hatched, but the fact is that from Washington to Budapest via Warsaw, the nationalist and authoritarian regimes, the so-called “populist” regimes, no longer have the wind at their backs.
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