Tag: Ideas and debates
“The Paris Olympics must not welcome delegations from criminal states!”
The recent visit to the Olympic sites of the Paris 2024 Games by the president of the Iranian Paralympic Committee Ghafour Kargari, the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards in…
Bernard Arnault and the Restos du coeur: whatever they do, the rich are always wrong
Responding to the call of the Restos du Coeur, in great financial difficulty, Bernard Arnault, the world’s second largest fortune, announced its decision to make a donation of 10 million…
Michael Sauga (Der Spiegel): “Look at the data, Macron did the right thing for the French economy”
These days, Emmanuel Macron must appreciate foreign press reviews. A few weeks ago, The Economist hailed France’s “hidden successes”. From now on, it is another prestigious weekly, Der Spiegel, which…
“Barbie”, an incredible geopolitical revealer
Is a blonde doll worth all the geopolitics textbooks? Biggest hit of the year with $1.3 billion in revenue at the end of August, Barbie acted as an incredible revealer…
Why the children of North African immigrants integrate better than you think
Riots, abaya… The news focuses on the failures of integration. But in the exciting The Integrated, sociologist Arnaud Lacheret, associate professor at Skema Business School and specialist in Arab-Muslim culture,…
Beyond the abaya, let’s fight the identity spirit, by Omar Youssef Souleimane
In 2022, in a college in Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, during a writing workshop on individual freedom, a student writes a text on the ban on crop tops. She explains to…
Coup d’etat in Gabon: “If we don’t punish harshly, we encourage other putschs”
Who will be next? While military coups seemed to be rarer in recent decades, now these authoritarian power grabs are once again spreading in Central and West Africa. Mali in…
Relocations, exploding rents… Germany trapped in interventionism
Stefan Kooths, vice president and research director of the renowned Kiel Institute for the World Economy, warned the German government of the consequences of its own economic policies. The eminent…
Why the far right dominates the cultural battle on the Internet, by Gérald Bronner
In recent years, Antonio Gramsci has become fashionable again in the political-intellectual world. This early 20th century Italian Marxist theoretician was considered heterodox because he relativized the economic determinism that…
Tristane Banon: “These days, we don’t wear the abaya without religious motivations”
The Minister of National Education Gabriel Attal announced, on Sunday August 27, the ban on the abaya at school, a traditional covering garment from the Gulf countries, considering that it…