Tag: Ideas and debates
Why we must save the notion of merit, by Gérald Bronner
The question of the reproduction of social inequalities between generations is a central problem in the contemporary world. This is particularly true for democratic systems which promise, unlike traditional societies,…
“Barbecue and take power”: Besançon Fine Arts under “democratic” occupation
“They’re closing the doors!” From the workshops where she and other students are busy, Astrid Gallois, 21 and in her fourth year at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in…
Anti-capitalists are an apocalyptic cult, by Rainer Zitelmann
Anti-capitalists have always anticipated the great crisis that will cause the final and irreversible collapse of capitalism. Karl Marx believed he had discovered a number of economic “laws” that would…
Political Violence: Elected Officials, Don’t Let Yourself Go!, By Chloé Morin
A mayor who returns his tricolor scarf following the arson of his home. A chocolate maker beaten up because of his family ties with the wife of the President of…
Homophobia in football: “We missed something”
A year ago, Idrissa Gueye, then a Paris-Saint-Germain player, refused to wear a rainbow flocked jersey as part of the day against homophobia. In response, the former international referee and…
Wanting to renew democracy is a dangerous illusion, by Vincent Tournier
With the contestation of the pension reform, which was accompanied by a criticism of the institutions, we have seen the multiplication of pleas in favor of “democratic renewal” with the…
“Sensitivity readers”: the world of books is now under surveillance, by Sylvain Fort
For a long time I wondered why I was so revolted by the sensitivity readers. I am talking about those employees of publishing houses responsible for sifting literary texts through…
Mass in Latin, “vigor” of Islam… The surprising conversion to the sacred of Sonia Mabrouk
Who is Sonia Mabrouk really? The “freedom fighter” vaunted by Le Figaro Magazineor the “director of reaction” and “muse of the “rightosphere”” decried by Release ? His latest book, Reclaiming…
England and Nazism: “The dark side of the monarchy never ceases to reappear”
“The claw of the past”: this could have been the title of Eric Branca’s new book, The eagle and the leopard (Perrin). While the world has just witnessed, half-admiring, half-perplexed,…
Anthony Seldon: ‘Boris Johnson didn’t read his documents’
Nine months after leaving Downing Street, Boris Johnson continues to haunt British political life. Three chaotic years in office, which the famous historian Anthony Seldon, a specialist in Prime Ministers,…