Tag: Ideas and debates
Let’s break the taboo on the competence of our elected officials, by Sylvain Fort
In our democracy, all elected officials have one thing in common: during a campaign, they were able to convince their fellow citizens of the relevance of the changes they promise…
Why ban photos of bulldogs on social networks? By Gerald Bronner
Certain social facts which seem minute shed a great light on our contemporaneity. This is the case with the intention of Piet Adema, Dutch Minister of Agriculture, to ban his…
Rewrites, sexism… Can we still love James Bond?
If diamonds are forever, books are not. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the James Bond saga, this year, the stories featuring the secret agent 007 will be…
Justice: the great pains are (far too) silent, by Denys de Béchillon
Everyone chuckles. Television infuses us with pain. I missed cooking the chicken supreme because my mother didn’t trust me, but I don’t let go… We are called upon to understand,…
Armenia: “Let’s awaken our consciences in the face of the beginnings of a new ethnic cleansing”
Armenia, a country of relatively modest dimensions but strategically important in the heart of the Caucasus, with a thousand-year-old Christian culture but now based on the constitution of a secular…
Thorniké Gordadze, ex-Georgian minister: “If there is trouble in Russia, Putin will invade us”
Former Georgian minister in charge of relations with the European Union and Putin, Thorniké Gordadzé looks back on the troubled fate of his country since its invasion by Russia in…
“To beat the patriarchy, get rich”: when France discovers financial feminism
“The best way to beat the patriarchy? Get rich.” This is the leitmotif of the American Tori Dunlap, author of the podcast Her first 100k which provides financial education lessons…
“End of story”: what if Fukuyama was right?
In the post-Cold War era, three American academics rose to fame by daring to predict the future of geopolitics. With The end of the story (1992), Francis Fukuyama heralded the…
Why capitalism is the answer to poverty and starvation, by Rainer Zitelmann
Before the emergence of capitalism, the majority of the world’s population was mired in extreme poverty. In 1820, approximately 90% of the world’s population lived in absolute poverty. Today, less…
Pensions: the pay-as-you-go system is not ecologically sustainable, by Antoine Buéno
Researchers and representatives of environmental NGOs have just published a Tribune explaining that in the name of the ecological fight, they oppose pension reform. Because “to work more is to…