Tag: Ideas and debates
“Black Book”: when the identity right sees the extreme left everywhere
Tell me how you see “the extreme left”, I’ll tell you who you are. On the occasion of the release of the first issue of its quarterly, devoted to immigration,…
Police violence down, crime up: the unexpected effect of “Black Lives Matter”
“I am always surprised when I see how little black lives matter,” activist Alicia Garza wrote on Facebook on July 13, 2013 after the acquittal, in Florida, of George Zimmerman,…
From Trump to Zemmour: right-wing “woke” also exist
The English conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, with his sober humor British, illustrated what he believed to be the difference between right and left in the following way: “People on the…
Booba indicted: the “pirate” and his digital militias, by Gérald Bronner
Elie Yaffa, better known as Booba, is a French singer who has enjoyed great commercial success since the early 2000s; which constitutes a tour de force in a genre –…
Immigration: not understanding the phenomenon will condemn us to act badly
It is an understatement to say that non-European immigration in our country arouses passions. No doubt it is because it is among the subjects on which our leaders, French or…
If Biden does not step down, prepare for a Trump victory, by Timothy Garton Ash
During two months spent in the United States this summer, I never stopped asking a simple question of all the journalists, academics and analysts I met: “Who will be the…
Pierre-André Taguieff: “Wokism is the contemporary form of cultivated and sophisticated stupidity”
What would the scenario look like? Dinner for idiots, famous comic behind closed doors questioning, in the 1990s, the sources of stupidity, if it had been written in 2023? To…
Pseudosciences: the gray areas of the Nef, the favorite bank of eco-friendly town halls
What do the environmentalist cities of Lyon, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Besançon and Nantes have in common (whose mayor, Johanna Rolland, is a socialist, but where the Greens are part of…
France is almost as anti-capitalist as Russia
Barely less anti-capitalist than Greece, Montenegro or Russia… And very far behind states like Vietnam, Nigeria, South Korea or Poland. Published by the British think tank Institute of Economic Affairs…
Immigration: fear has changed its narrative, by Gérald Bronner
10,000 migrants have landed in recent days on the island of Lampedusa in Italy, which has an area of 20 square kilometers and has only 6,000 inhabitants. This simple comparison…