Tag: Ideas and debates
Immigration, last bullet for parties out of breath
Let’s not believe that the melodrama played around the coming of Medina at EELV and the Insoumis would have revealed in the latter who knows what clumsiness or lack of…
Is a politicized judge still a judge? By Denys de Bechillon
We owe the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève to have formalized the most perfect definition of what a judge should be: a “third party, impartial and disinterested”. There is no law…
Syrians challenge Bashar al-Assad again: “The barrier of fear is broken”
No one expected to see demonstrations filling the streets of Syria again. Since 2011, when the revolution began, the war has killed more than half a million people and displaced…
Riots: these drug ZADs that we don’t want to see, by Sylvain Fort
The riots that shook France from late June to early July should have put an end to the denial that has covered the real state of French society for decades.…
From beyond the grave, Prigozhin will have his revenge against Putin, by Brian Klaas
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the ruthless leader of the Wagner mercenary group, was reportedly killed in a plane crash, an event that many interpret as an assassination. Prigozhin probably knew to stay…
The inevitable decline of the Russian Empire will be one of our greatest challenges, by Timothy Garton Ash
Last month I was on the corner of old Pushkin Street in Kyiv. Following Vladimir Putin’s total invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it was renamed Yevhen Chykalenko Street, after a…
Niger: those who rejoice at the departure of France go straight into the wall
April 17 is an unforgettable day for Syrians. It is the feast of the Evacuation, of independence, of the departure from France. The French army occupied Syria from 1922 to…
Niger: those who rejoice at the departure of France go straight into the wall
April 17 is an unforgettable day for Syrians. It is the feast of the Evacuation, of independence, of the departure from France. The French army occupied Syria from 1922 to…
Why are we convinced that everything is going to hell? By Gerald Bronner
A recent article published in the prestigious journal Nature, based on a vast study including 12 million individuals across 60 countries, leads to the conclusion that almost everywhere in the…
Boom of irrational beliefs: a wave of a magic wand will not be enough
Sandrine Rousseau has an unparalleled talent for sparking controversy. Corollary: an ability, also unparalleled, to feel the spirit of the times. So inevitably, when the ecofeminist declares that she “prefers…