Tag: Ideas and debates
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…
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…