Essays · Charles Peloye

Four essays written in French for Antithèse from July to October 2026, here in English. Each one picks up where the last left off.

New · Public debate

On the Necessity of Seeking Together

Many of us now notice how coarse and simplistic public debate has become.

Charles PeloyeForthcoming in French in Antithèse11 min read

Science and technologyEssay III
Will Our Faith in Progress Get the Better of Our Humanity?
Our age has a paradoxical relationship with science: a selective faith.
Charles PeloyeOctober 9, 202612 min read
HousingEssay II
Owning on Credit, or the Wager on Stability
The previous essay ended on a hypothesis: deprived of cheap energy and constrained by the new world order, Europe could become the cradle of a new model of society, prosperous without material abundance.
Charles PeloyeAugust 28, 20267 min read
EnergyEssay I
Energy Twilight: Europe, Laboratory of the World to Come?
In an age of material contraction, the question of whether capitalism can endure is no longer only an ideological one: it runs up against a set of physical limits.
Charles PeloyeJuly 17, 20266 min read

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