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La ville de Jean Calvin et de la Réforme change. Derrière sa réputation austère de refuge pour les exilés politiques, le berceau de la Croix-Rouge, de

The eye-opening story of how a conservative think tank of political philosophers dedicated to the founding principles of the United States became the base of operations for Trump's agenda of destroying civil rights and undoing American democracy.From the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 and the Federalist Society's decades-long campaign to shape the judiciary, private think tanks have long been the shadowy intellectual engine driving conservative politics. But the Claremont Institute remains the most consequential organization in shaping the MAGA agenda. Founded in southern California in 1979, Claremont's original mission was "to restore the principles of the American Founding to its rightful, preeminent authority" in American society. Now, historian Darrell Munsell uncovers how the Claremont Institute went from being a home for erudite political philosophers to serving as the base camp for the January 6 insurrection, Project 2025, and President Trump's authoritarian agenda.The institute's political activism began with its endorsement of Donald Trump for president in 2016, followed quickly by its entry into the cultural battles against Black Lives Matter, multiculturalism, critical race theory, and the use of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public universities, government agencies, and commercial enterprises. By the end of Trump's first term, Claremont believed that "wokeism" was an existential threat to the Founders' Constitution and was fighting to win the culture war at any cost--including attempting to reverse the results of the 2020 election.In the wake of Trump's 2020 defeat, Claremont lurched further rightward toward populism, Christian nationalism, and illiberalism. Led by John Eastman, Charles Kesler, Thomas D. Klingenstein, and a new generation of young, conservative activists--some from the furthest fringes of the far-right--the Claremont Institute is shaping the movement of National Conservatism with its devotion to replacing constitutional democracy with an authoritarian system of government. Claremont joined forces with the Heritage Foundation and other groups to draft Project 2025, the now-infamous blueprint for the second Trump administration.Munsell's revelatory history of the Claremont Institute pulls back the curtain on one of the most influential organizations in American politics and a driving force of the MAGA ascendency. A must read for anyone seeking to understand the hidden forces behind Trump's agenda.

How the unequal burdens of climate change are reshaping both domestic and international politics

Les 100 premiers jours du 47e président des États-Unis ont fait basculer le monde dans la science-fiction. Un agresseur sexuel délinquant financier devient président de la première puissance nucléaire, l’Amérique se soumet à Moscou, le mot "femme" devient tabou dans le monde académique, l’État fédéral américain est mis en pièces, un magnat des fusées et des voitures électriques promet de rendre à l’Europe sa grandeur en soutenant les extrêmes droites tandis qu’il assure à l’humanité un avenir radieux et salutaire sur la planète rouge… d’ici à 2030. L'auteur – spécialiste des réseaux sociaux et des manipulations d’opinion – décrypte la vision du monde d’Elon Musk, ses méthodes chocs et ses alliances à travers 50 de ses tweets. Il trace une ligne de fuite de ce présent dystopique et invite à une plongée vertigineuse dans l’univers de l’homme le plus riche du monde, dont la priorité n’est pourtant pas l’argent, mais bien le sort de toutes les personnes susceptibles de lire ce livre. David Chavalarias, mathématicien et directeur de recherche au CNRS (EHESS/CAMS & ISC-PIF), développe depuis 2016 des outils d’analyse des réseaux sociaux, notamment Twitter-X, pour mesurer leur impact sur les sociétés numériques et les démocraties. Ses travaux ont permis de quantifier les profondes transformations de Twitter à la suite de son rachat par Elon Musk ainsi que son instrumentalisation à des fins idéologiques. Retrouvez tous les tweets du livre en couleur et haute définition, les notes et références bibliographiques exhaustives ainsi que d’autres compléments sur : http://musk.chavalarias.org

Neuro-arnaque : comment les faussaires du cerveau déguisent la de Jérémie Naude (ISBN 2386291979): Commandez le livre français au prix avantageux de CHF 26.10, sans frais de port, chez Ex Libris.

A pioneering study of the Cold War military-industrial complex shows how defense leaders reorganized the US armed forces in the image of commercial enterprise. The strategic landscape of the Cold War generated political support for a permanent US military force of unprecedented scale. Faced with the problem of managing this behemoth, leaders of the defense bureaucracy looked to private industry for inspiration: since the military now resembled a huge industrial conglomerate, they reasoned, it should be run like a business. A. J. Murphy explores the profound consequences of translating military structures of command, logistics, and warfare into capitalist terms. In the realm of budgeting and finance, defense reformers refashioned the supply process as a buy-and-sell transaction between units, requiring officers to express their need for equipment and labor in dollar terms. Bureaucrats embraced Taylorist work measurement to supervise everything from clerical filing to the production of massive weapons systems. The services even engaged management consultants to establish officer-training academies modeled on the Harvard Business School. After the Vietnam War, many military leaders pushed back, questioning "managerialism" and calling for a return to traditional concepts of command. Civilian critics also chimed in, protesting the callousness of the business-minded secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, who famously measured success and failure in body counts. By this time, however, the language and values of management had thoroughly infiltrated the military's institutional structure and daily operations. As Pentagon Capitalism makes clear, the reorganization of the defense bureaucracy along the lines of a for-profit firm durably altered the experience of military work and facilitated the lasting privatization of US national security.

A mother and son scavenge and pillage in a violent post-apocalyptic world, in the poet and short story writer’s tense and engrossing debut

"An ambitious, important, and utterly captivating book."--Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Replaceable You and Stiff A revealing investigation into how industrial farming poses a growing threat to America's bees Each February, a vast yet largely invisible migration takes place across the United States. Semi-trucks stacked high with honey bee colonies head to California's Central Valley, carrying nearly 99 percent of the nation's domesticated bees. There, the bees pollinate millions of acres of blooming almond orchards before fanning out across the country for apples, berries, and other crops. This massive undertaking sustains both beekeepers and farmers--but it comes at a heavy price. In Bitter Honey, Jennie Durant takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the human and ecological cost of industrial farming for bees, beekeepers, and all of us who depend on them. Bees today face a gauntlet of threats: parasites and disease, pesticide exposure, and climate extremes--all magnified by Big Ag. Beekeepers, meanwhile, endure grueling practices just to survive, often losing half their hives each year. But this isn't a story of defeat. Durant introduces us to the beekeepers, farmers, and activists pioneering new ways to support both wild and managed bees. The stakes are high: nearly three-quarters of our major food crops depend on bees and other pollinators. Bitter Honey exposes the crisis threatening the nation's bees and spotlights the advocates working to protect them for generations to come.

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Title: Disorder: Swiss Grit Volume II [Unit 54]Author, editor, designer: Chris AshworthForeword: Marvin Scott JarrettAfterword: Adrian ShaughnessyLimited edition Disorder: Swiss Grit Volume II is the first book dedicated to the career of Chris Ashworth, charting his ‘Swiss Grit’ approach from the influential Ray Gun magazine in the 1990s through to his experimental type projects of the present day. Ashworth sees his work – craft-based, handmade – as a counterpoint to our screen-dependent digital culture and this book is the manifestation of an alternative view which argues that creative development away from the computer offers unique and precious merits.  Thanks to the generous support of the 1,129 backers of our Volume campaign to crowdfund the publication of Disorder last year, we now have a limited number of copies of the original Unit Editions version of the book, for sale exclusively on

Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow.Architecture Against Architecture demands we rethink

Too many of our convictions about the fifty-four nations of Africa come from non-African sources. Western media often treat the continent as a simulacrum of Western anxieties. In contrast, Jeremy Harding focuses on specific historical episodes and cultural practices – cinema, art, ethnography and journalism – to steer

Interrogates how digital self-surveillance can be turned against us by police, prosecutors, and political whimsFor consumers living in a digitally-connected ...

The Post-Global City seeks to open a new field of analytical inquiry that examines knowledge production and technological developments in urban Africa rooted in local, historical realities, while also ...

Crypto, NFTs, meme stocks and other digital currency investments are seen as either a transparent Ponzi scheme or the future of finance. But what all of these n…

Au cours des années 2010 et 2020, aux États-Unis, une nouvelle contre-culture de droite radicale s’est développée sur internet.

In recent decades, self-proclaimed “independent bookstores” have arisen across China. In the West, such retailers represent an alternative to corporation... | CUP

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Commandez le livre DAVID GRAEBER. LE JEU DE L'IMAGINATION ANTHROPOLOGIQUE, Olivier Coulaux  Édité par Adeline Baldacchino Benjamin Gizard - Ouvrage disponible en version papier et/ou numérique (ebook)

This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

'A murdered mother's fight for truth and justice lives on through the words of her youngest son' Angelina Jolie 'A work of rare vividness and authority, devastatingly told' Financial Times When Paul Caruana Galizia was at work in London, his eldest brother called to say their mother Daphne had just been assassinated. That day, he returned to their native Malta and, with his two brothers and their father, began a quest to discover who was responsible for Daphne's murder and who stood to profit from ending the life of a journalist whose courage and determination threatened the powerful with the truth. Two years later, they did. A Death in Malta is more than an investigation into the life and assassination of Daphne by her son Paul. It's an examination of the globalisation of corruption and what it has done to a modern European country; it's about that country's escape from colonialism to another kind of arrogant power; it's a personal history of writing when the stakes are high and the intimidation is violent. Above all, it's a universal homage to mothers and their sons. 'A superbly honest and very painful account . . . A book that is unforgettable, beautifully written and deeply honest' John Simpson, Guardian

Hugues Jallon est formel : « C’est le temps où le fascisme commence à exister vraiment. Jusqu’alors, il n’était pas seulement contenu, il était seul. Et en politique, on n’y arrive jamais seul. Désormais, il faut se rendre à l’évidence : l’extrême droite n’est plus seule, elle est bien entourée. » 

In this era of progress, we have gone from being protectors of life on earth, to its greatest threat. One challenge we will confront in the next millennia …

From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust. In the “old” Gilded Age, the barons of business…

Andreas Malm*, auteur de L’anthropocène contre l’histoire : le réchauffement climatique à l’ère du capital (2017) ou de Comment saboter un pipeline (2020) a fait paraître en début d’année un petit ouvrage reprenant une conférence donnée à Beyrouth en avril 2024, qui met en é

Les usages de l'écrit au Moyen Âge À paraître en janvier au Seuil

Bravo et merci à Christophe Granger et Sarah Rey pour ce livre qui vient de paraître chez La Découverte.

Qui a porté Hitler au pouvoir ? À paraître en février chez Gallimard