Tag: Ideas and debates
“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…
Pension reform: “A town hall is not the property of a party…”
Legal or not? For the past few days, the closures of town halls in protest against the pension reform, at the call of the secretary general of the PCF, Fabien…
“With Biden, the United States entered the era of integrated deterrence”
On January 20, 2021, Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. The time when he enters the second part of his mandate –…
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: The 1000 billion dollars for development are within reach
For years, the UN has been sounding the alarm about insufficient funding for the Sustainable Development Goals. Two random examples: the COP 15 of 2019 had set a target of…
Mathilde Berger-Perrin: On sexism, the “above-ground” recommendations of the HCE
“37% of French women have already experienced situations of non-consent”; “+ 21% of victims of domestic violence between 2020 and 2021.” The report of the High Council for Equality (HCE)…
David Haziza: “Why ChatGPT should be treated as an enemy”
The problem of artificial intelligence should not be considered from the angle of its possible perfection. Ask ChatGPT to evoke a cold Parisian twilight “in the manner of Baudelaire”, he…