Jean-Claude Guillebaud is a leading European writer, journalist and editor. His broad historical and cultural reach fuels an intense and incisive view of contemporary cultural trends.

Among his recent prize-winning books are The Betrayal of the Enlightenment (Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Award, 1995) and The Tyranny of Pleasure (Renaudot Prize for Essays, 1998).

Is it time to dump Western capitalism's values?

Or on the contrary, to re-found our market-based society by dumping its distortions and returning to the fundamental values of our Greek-Judeo-Christian heritage?

Is it time to dump Western capitalism's values?

Or on the contrary, to re-found our market-based society by dumping its distortions and returning to the fundamental values of our Greek-Judeo-Christian heritage?