Tag: Ideas and debates
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,…
Saudi Arabia invites gay tourists… while continuing to severely punish homosexuality
It all started with a question asked on the official website of the Saudi Ministry of Tourism. At the beginning of May, a stranger asks: “Are homosexuals welcome in Saudi…
Adèle Haenel: behind chic radicalism, the worrying Marxist turn
“Faced with the bourgeoisie’s monopoly of speech and finances, I have no other weapons than my body and my integrity. […] I cancel you from my world. I leave, I…
The return of political violence? These signals that should alert us, by Gérald Bronner
For some time now, the question of political violence has again been invited into the debates, both through notable essays such as those by Andreas Malm (How to sabotage a…
Thaïs d’Escufon, Julien Rochedy… When far-right influencers exploit biology
“Science has no country”, said Louis Pasteur. She has no political color either, but on the far right, some seem to have forgotten that. On April 28, Thaïs d’Escufon, the…
“Succession”, Bolloré, Arnault… Why dynasties fascinate us so much
There is something rotten in the kingdom… of the ultra-rich. When it comes to succession, going through an inheritance often ends up looking like a Shakespearean tragedy. The more colossal…
“The Horde”: the Mongols, precursors of globalization and liberalism
In continuous area, it was the largest empire in history. In the wake of Genghis Khan, the Mongols linked, in the 13th and 14th centuries, Eastern Asia, the Islamic world,…
Bruno Le Maire, Marlène Schiappa… The writer minister, a tradition in peril
A normalist with a classic look and a bit stuffy, an ardent and shameless feminist posing for Playboy… The government of Elisabeth Borne unites in the passion of writing two…