Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

Better and better and worse and worse Understanding our world better, and using it with optimism

An antidote to the pessimistic discourse on decline, it shows that the only lucid and worthwhile attitude is to accept the limits of progress without renouncing confidence in the future. A book which reconnects with the idea of progress without falling either into naïvete or into demagogy.

Jacques Hochmann

Degeneration Theories Psychiatry and History

The unbelievable story of a mad psychiatric theory centered on the idea of heredity which was put to the most horrible of uses, while having a lasting effect on mentalities.

Edward N. Luttwak

The Endangered American Dream

Walter Russel Mead

Special Providence American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World