Tag: Ideas and debates
Riots: “France is fractured as it has not been since the Algerian war”
After Nahel’s death, the President of the Republic quickly qualified the policeman’s act as “inexplicable and inexcusable”. At the same time, a number of voices in the government hastened to…
Riots, the fault of video games? When Macron brings out old stereotypes, by Tony Gheeraert
It is always surprising to hear President Emmanuel Macron, so concerned about the country’s prosperity, attacking one of the jewels of French industry so violently. By stigmatizing, during his speech…
Steiner schools in Alsace: “There is a real law of silence in these establishments”
An “initiation to the principle of combustion”. On May 30, a teacher from the Steiner-Waldorf private school in Wintzenheim, near Colmar (Haut-Rhin), lit a fire in the middle of the…
Riots: this violence has nothing to do with politics, it is asocial, amoral and mercantile, by Benjamin Sire
If France – well, a part of France – is on fire before our eyes, it is not only in reaction to an unbearable police blunder, but in particular because…
Gavin Mortimer: “The riots are the most dangerous crisis of the Macron presidency”
He is undoubtedly one of the Anglo-Saxon authors who best knows France and its turpitudes. For twelve years, the historian Gavin Mortimer has lived in Paris, from where he observes…
End of positive discrimination: the United States will not enter a post-racial era
How do you win a debate? In a scientific discussion, one wins by proving that what one says is true, and that what the opponent says is false. In politics,…
French “positive discrimination”: stop or again?
The Supreme Court of the United States has just put an end to the possibility of using ethnic criteria to promote the entry of certain students into university. This is…
“The 100 billion dollars obtained by Macron only reinforces climate colonialism”
Congratulations to President Emmanuel Macron for the $100 billion in climate aid pledged at the Paris Summit for a New Global Financial Pact. It looks good on him: climate activists…
“Not broadcasting ‘Promenade à Cracovie’ because of Polanski is obscene”, by Sabine Prokhoris
The 5 of July will be released, to date on no more than three screens in France, a infinitely valuable, and in many ways necessary documentary, directed by two young…
Prigozhin only confirmed that Putin is no longer a real tsar, by Mikhail Shishkin
When we were kids, we used to play “king of the mountain”. In the winter, we would do a snow slide in the backyard, and the goal was to get…