Tag: Ideas and debates
The Doomsday Clock is indifferent to scientific advances, by Gérald Bronner
According to the doomsday clock, we have never been closer to the end of time. This clock – the Doomsday Clock – was conceived in 1947 by a college of…
The earthquake told by Syrians: “We thought it was the day of the Last Judgment”
This time the bombardment did not come from the sky, but from the ground. For years, millions of Syrians have fled the area controlled by the dictatorial regime. They live…
“If Russia had won…”: the worst-case scenario we avoided, by Anne Applebaum
On February 24, 2023, it will be twelve months, fifty-two weeks and three hundred and sixty-five days that the Ukrainian army is fighting. In that time, the national soldiers and…
Media: why only 9% of French people fully trust them
“They didn’t all die, but all were hit.” Like the animals sick with the plague described by La Fontaine, we are all affected by distrust of information and the media,…
Attacks against Bernard Arnault: “How many jobs did François Ruffin create?”
Trained historian, journalist at Die Welt then a successful entrepreneur, the German Rainer Zitelmann decided, in his fifties, to return to university life. In 2016, he defended a second thesis…
“Tyranny of merit”: Olivier Faure guilty of cultural appropriation, by Sylvain Fort
“The myth of equal opportunities cannot hide cultural and social determinism. We want the school of equality and social diversity. To initiate a break with the tyranny of merit, that…
The war in Ukraine has reactivated nationalist instincts in Europe, by Sylvain Fort
The Second World War liquidated a concept that was very fashionable in the decades that preceded it: nationalism. Hitler’s pan-German hysteria, his dream of a thousand-year-old Reich have finally revealed…
When ChatGPT got the famous cognitive reflection test all wrong
In a few weeks, the conversational artificial intelligence ChatGPT ignited all imaginations and generated a significant number of comments. Everyone tried to test it and I was no exception to…
Pension reform and immigration: the French in full demographic denial
Pension reform and immigration. On these two major subjects of government news, the French are against, and perfectly contradictory. More than two thirds of our compatriots say they are resistant…
Election of Trump in 2016: why we overestimated the role of Russian trolls
These days, the businessman Evgueni Prigojine often occupies the headlines as the founder of the paramilitary group Wagner, very active on the Ukrainian front alongside and in competition with the…