Tag: Ideas and debates
Marine Le Pen and her “Declaration of Peoples’ Rights”, a pulverization of individual rights
Marine Le Pen has just proposed a “Declaration of the Rights of Nations and Peoples” which aims to protect peoples and nations from the undue intervention of supranational structures, such…
Earthquake in Morocco: “We cannot predict disasters, but we can protect ourselves from them”
Unlike the floods that hit Libya, the earthquake that killed nearly 3,000 people in Morocco is one of those disasters that humanity cannot predict. Earthquakes form the archetype of the…
Russia, home of dubious statistics: political pressures, untenable objectives and dated practices
“Subject to caution”, “to be taken with caution”, “probably partial”… Whether it is the level of Russian support for the war or the “brain drain”, it is an understatement to…
Climate skepticism: the response to climate change deserves better than anathema
How far away it seems, the time when climate skeptics were content to deny the reality of climate change caused by man. Because, if we are to believe the most…
Ayn Rand, a novelist too free for the left… and the right
Two episodes of Simpson are dedicated to him. According to a 1991 poll, only the Bible is more influential than his seminal novel, Strike. Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, Brad Pitt…
René Girard: the return of Dogmatix
If the bushy eyebrow looked down at you, the eye had a hint of sadness. That of not succeeding in convincing you of a crucial fact: human societies are built…
Earthquake in Morocco: why Rabat and Algiers will struggle to overcome their disagreements
Since the earthquake that hit Morocco on September 8, residents of the Marrakech region have been mourning their dead and living in fear of the collapse of their homes. Against…
Why immigration does not cost the French economy 54 billion euros
The bill aimed at regulating immigration and strengthening integration revives the persistent debate on the contribution of immigration to the economy and more generally to French society. In this context,…
Aberkane, Giraud… In the mechanics of controversial theses
In the space of seven years, Idriss Aberkane has roamed television sets, haunted conference rooms, sold hundreds of thousands of books and united a community of no less than 312,000…
Donald Trump, or the reversal of the stigma, by Gérald Bronner
The American sociologist Howard Becker, famous in France, passed away this month of August. He was noted for his book Outsiders, which appeared the same year (1963) as Stigmas by…