Tag: Ideas and debates
Trump indicted: why this may well revive his political career, by Yascha Mounk
I would be very happy to see Donald Trump behind bars. Donald Trump has attacked the fundamental institutions of the American political system as no other president has done in…
Andreas Malm, new guru of radical ecologists: “Revolution is his obsession”
Tell me what your references are, I’ll tell you what becomes of your movement. In the 1990s, environmental activists hailed the action of Corinne Lepage, then a young lawyer and…
AI is not a scientific revolution, but an anthropological one, by Sylvain Fort
In a few weeks, artificial intelligence (AI) has gone from being a fascinating novelty to a worrying threat to almost everything that weaves our societies together. Not so long ago,…
Memoirs of Alain Badiou: an exercise in boasting and self-glorification
Panache, he never lacked. While the gratin of the proletarian left has long since turned his back, Alain Badiou does not let go: on his attachment to “the communist idea”,…
No, France has nothing to do with a country in civil war, by Omar Youssef Souleiman
Tuesday, March 21. It’s 11 p.m., the Place de la République in Paris is surrounded by CRS buses, their lights flashing everywhere, it looks like a show. From a distance,…
Adrenochrome theory: infox feed on the void, by Gérald Bronner
“Nature abhors a vacuum,” said Aristotle. The same could be said of the contemporary cognitive market, which sees the different representations of the world confront each other in competition without…
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem – Pascal Brice: In Saint-Brévin, a new stage in violence
Madam Prime Minister, On the night of Tuesday March 21, a new stage was reached in the escalation of violence against elected officials, associations and municipalities that welcome foreigners to…
We wanted to show Charles III a France that does not exist, by Sylvain Fort
Canceling the visit to France of King Charles III for reasons of social tension is obviously not very glorious. From the Brussels press conference of the President of the Republic,…
Nuclear, agriculture, autism… The approximations of Aymeric Caron
With frowning eyebrows, a serious face, the rebellious French deputy with a telegenic pepper-and-salt mane grabs the microphone of the hemicycle with one hand, determined to do battle with the…
Why wokism is (perhaps) already corny
Just entered the Little Robert, is wokism already losing ground? A few months ago, it was necessary, in France, to clarify the meaning of the word “woke” (“awakened” in English).…