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Finally, civilization itself is humanity's definitive intervention against what is truly natural. No matter how wrong Jean Jacques Rousseau was about the nobility of the natural savage, he correctly saw that social order "does not come from nature." Neither does much of what goes into society's...
IN ONE PARTICULARLY poignant moment in Jean Jacques Beineix's new movie Diva. Cynthia Hawknis, the striking Black soprano of the title, and her adoring fan Jules stroll through the streets of a rainy and ancient Paris. Floating serenely across grassy parks and statue-ridden boulevards, the pair find themselves...
Perhaps, but the excesses of the 1960s should not be used to besmirch reforms that were valuable. They too derived from a distinguished intellectual tradition. Its founding father was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who argued in his novel Emile that children are not miniature adults and should not be drilled into...
Since last month, when Mexico virtually defaulted on $80 billion it owed international banks, money managers around the globe have had a bad case of the jitters. While the Toronto meeting was going on last week, there were reports of still more Latin American financial troubles. The heads of the...
French ambitions go beyond national borders. In an effort to make Paris a world headquarters of the computer revolution, the government has established the grandly named Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressources Humaines (World Center for Personal Computation and Human Development). Headed by Author-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the organization...