BONUS – Machiavel: écrire depuis l’exil

L’Esprit des lois,est l'un des livres les plus influents de toute l’histoire politique. Publié en 1748 par Montesquieu, philosophe des Lumières, cet ouvrage cherche à répondre à une question simple mais immense : pourquoi les lois sont-elles différentes d’un pays à l’autre ?Sa th ...  Show more

Pour comprendre Machiavel, il faut oublier l’image caricaturale d’un penseur cynique prônant la manipulation. Niccolò Machiavelli est avant tout un fonctionnaire florentin du début du XVIe siècle, né en 1469, qui observe la politique non pas comme elle devrait être, mais comme el ...  Show more

The Suez Canal was once one of the busiest global shipping routes – a third of the world's shipping containers normally pass through it. Since the Houthis began to attack passing ships last year, the volume of vessels going through has declined rapidly.The canal is run by the Egy ...  Show more

A 50-mile man-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the creation of the Panama Canal was arguably the greatest infrastructure project the world had ever seen. But its journey from concept to completion was anything but simple, as it failed repeatedly, and pass ...  Show more

How did Britain and France almost start World War 3 in 1956? Who was Anthony Eden and why did he hate Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser? Why was the Suez Canal so vital to European oil supplies in the 1950s? Anita and William are joined by the brilliant Alex Von Tunzelmann, auth ...  Show more

You know of the Panama Canal (we already talked about it in Season 1 if you didn't), but you probably had no idea that a second canal has been in plans for a very, very long time now - one that passes through Nicaragua (that's north of Panama).


But the ...