Tag: Ideas and debates
Mel Gibson: how the actor became the conspirators’ favorite star
For those who are not familiar with conspiracy theses, the scenario of Sound of Freedom, released in the United States on July 4, is a classic thriller: after saving a…
Race, gender… Should science be deconstructed? By physicist Gérald Panczer
In recent years, the editorial boards of international scientific journals have published and given voice to researchers in the hard sciences claiming visibility, consideration of gender, “racial”, ethnic and sexual…
Jean-François Kahn: “Mélenchon’s egotism transformed him into the guru of a sect”
How did we get here? This is the title of Jean-François Kahn’s latest book (Ed. L’Observatoire). And the question with which many of our public debates in recent years could…
Synthetic voices, “friends”, avatars… The 21st century will be that of the living dead, by Gérald Bronner
A few weeks ago, I wished a happy birthday to a Facebook contact with whom, until then, I had always had interesting exchanges. I received, a little later, an embarrassed…
Riots: where were the parents? By Jean-Francois Cope
Burned cars, broken windows, looted businesses and threatened elected officials. In one week, France has fallen into another world, that of shame. Shame in the face of these unacceptable acts…
“Dissolve” the police or reduce its means? In the United States, the experiment led to the fiasco
“France is living its George Floyd moment”, judged the American magazine Newsweek a few days after the death of Nahel, killed by police fire on June 27, in Nanterre. The…
La France insoumise wants to make prisons “mixed”, by Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern
This June 23, the parliamentary group of insubordinate France tabled an amendment asking to “improve the care of transgender people in prison”. So far, no problem. Men who call themselves…
Permanent Revolution, Uprisings of the Earth… These militants who surf on the riots
It is a face that we did not expect. In any case, not this Wednesday, June 28, at the rally which was held in Place de la République, in Paris,…
Elon Musk – Mark Zuckerberg: the return of duels? By Gerald Bronner
There was a time when dueling was a socially accepted way of settling disputes. We thought we could limit social violence by limiting it to a confrontation between two individuals.…
Riots: this “toxic masculinity” that Sandrine Rousseau does not want to see
Usually so quick to track down “toxic masculinity” in the barbecue or a presidential “bottom up”, Sandrine Rousseau was much more lenient about the riots in the neighborhoods. The Green…