Tag: Ideas and debates
Annecy attack: praise of virtuous silence, by Gérald Bronner
On June 8, a tragedy moved the whole of France. A man, Abdalmasih H., stabbed six people in Annecy, including four children. Absolute horror. The strings of chance caused this…
The (real) obsessions of ecosexuality: patriarchy, anarchism and heteronormativity
The scene is lunar. A naked man, on all fours, plunges his nose into ferns while miming a sexual act under the watchful eyes of his audience, while a sex-toy…
Nicholas Eberstadt: “There is something wrong in Russia…”
Demographically, too, Russia is an anomaly. The country has both a highly educated population, comparable to Western nations, but with a life expectancy close to that of Haiti when it…
Trans minors: the true and the false, by the Observatory of the Little Mermaid
In France, Senator LR from Val-d’Oise, Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio announced the creation of a working group on the trans-identification of minors and the HAS (Haute Autorité de Santé) is organizing a…
When the woke ideology takes hold of artificial intelligence, by François Rastier
The history of artificial intelligence (AI) merges with that of its own overestimation. It is due to various factors: among computer scientists, the desire to maximize funding; among manufacturers, the…
Attack in Annecy: we have turned our backs on heroic virtues, by Sylvain Fort
France loves its heroes. The recent June 6 will have been the occasion to celebrate once again the men of the Kieffer commando who landed with the English and the…
Death of Denis Kessler: tribute to a fierce defender of liberalism
First researcher, then employer representative and finally business manager, this native of Mulhouse was endowed with a rare erudition, the fruit of brilliant studies (HEC, double aggregation, doctorate) and a…
War in Ukraine: what young Europeans think, by Timothy Garton Ash
“Do you think there will be a generation of those in 2022?” a student in the German university town of Göttingen asked me recently. In other words, a set of…
Berlusconi seemed anachronistic, but he will have been a harbinger, by Yascha Mounk
The former leader of a great democracy, who used his billions to acquire vast political influence, who knew how to use television to transform his culture, who became infamous for…
Angèle, François Ruffin, Blanche Gardin… the new left “reactions”
It’s a word launched hastily, a bad lexical choice, a culpable silence or acquaintances with the ideological enemy “which say (too) much”… On the left, these last months have been…