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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Interview on the bestseller by the American historian David Landes
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The Five Moments That Forged the West
From Athens to the Industrial Revolution
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Others Don't Think Like Us
Memoirs and Lessons from a Great French Diplomat
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At the Origins of Western Architecture
Learning to read our monuments with an architectural historian
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Welcome to the War Economy!
Interview with David Baverez, investor, essayist, and China specialist based in Hong Kong
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‘Wokism punishes the West for its virtues’
Interview with Pierre Valentin on his book Understanding the woke revolution
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These weird Westerners
How the West Became Psychologically Different and Shaped the Modern World
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"Business is the best way to get to know other cultures"
Interview with Xavier Fontanet on his book "Conquering the world with your team"
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About Napoleon
"Through his Code, his University and his prefects, Napoleon reigned in France until 1940"
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"They tried to erase our identity": conversation with the Lithuanian ambassador to France
Small country, big history
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Why Greece?
What the West owes to Athens
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At the origins of Western civilization
What we owe to Greco-Roman Antiquity
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