Tag: Ideas and debates
The French and science: the study that tempers the ambient alarmism
Have the French dropped out of science? In January, an Ifop survey for the Reboot Foundation and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation warned of scientific misinformation in the age of social networks.…
David Goodhart: “The situation around pensions reminds me of Brexit”
The essayist and journalist David Goodhart, famous for his distinction between “Somewhere” (“those from somewhere”) and “Anywhere” (“those from everywhere”), is one of the best analysts of the fractures of…
When France sells off its national treasures, by Sylvain Fort
This week, I’m going to tell you a wonderful story. It is that of a medieval manuscript called the “Codex Irmengard”. It was made in the 11th century in Germany,…
Edith Bruder: “The phenomenon of black Judaism, by its magnitude, is truly staggering”
The illustration is daring, almost provocative: a Jewish man – felt hat, curls – and a black woman kissing languidly. However, as this History of Jewish-Black Relations (Albin Michel), relations…
Racism, feminicides, police violence… The “system” has a good back
Racism, feminicides, police violence… For several years, the French militant sphere has adorned each of its fights with the vaporous epithet “systemic” – in defiance of accuracy, nuance and dialogue.…
Mitterrand, this novel that never ends
To André Rousselet, who asked him at the end of his life: “Whoever knows you best, what percentage of knowledge does he have?”, François Mitterrand replied: “30%.” When the president…
War in Ukraine: astrologers, sorcerers… These improbable agents of Russian propaganda
With her serious air and her look of a political woman, Tamara Globa, 66, puts her hands on her knees, and answers for an hour and twenty to the interviewer…
Why capitalism is the solution to global warming, by Rainer Zitelmann
For more than twenty years, researchers at Yale University have published the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which ranks countries according to their environmental health and the vitality of their ecosystems.…
Section 49.3, the story of a constitutional weapon with a bad reputation
“Everyone slanders me/Except the mute, that goes without saying…” Like the non-conformism of Brassens’ song, 49.3 has a bad reputation. One example among others: in 2016, the citizen movement “Nuit…
“Let’s not confuse sexual orientation and gender identity, therefore homosexuality and transidentity”
In several European countries and even in the United States, health authorities (in Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and these days in Norway) or policies (in at least seven states…