Day: December 21, 2025
Dec
21
France’s Oldest Café and the Haitian Coffee That Fueled the Enlightenment
The Infrastructure of Thought In a world shaped by thought, few spaces carried the weight of the café. Before social media, parliaments, or modern universities existed, cafés were where power traveled, carried through conversation, sharpened by debate, and passed hand to hand in the form of dangerous ideas. At the heart of this culture stood […]