Tag: Ideas and debates
Mathilde Berger-Perrin: “To reduce gender inequalities, let’s capitalize pensions”
The observation is clear: in France, women are less wealthy than men. On average, they earn a salary 22% lower, a gap which narrows to 5.3% for equal positions. At…
Gérald Bronner, a transclass against the “pain” of Annie Ernaux
Children of workers or cleaning women, they became prominent writers, intellectuals or politicians. France is distinguished by its educational inequalities, but “class defectors”, or “transclasses”, are in vogue in publishing.…
Inclusive writing, cancel culture… How to respond to your woke child
Banal story of a day spent on the benches of the university. On the menu: “zoopoetics” and “eco-literature” criticism of “Western, white, heterosexual and patriarchal” literature… Faced with the interest…
Pensions: work is less a “value” than a collective myth, by Sylvain Fort
Work could be defined only as an activity that an economic agent agrees to carry out for remuneration. The rest – the social function of work, the meaning it takes…
Pensions: work is less a “value” than a collective myth, by Sylvain Fort
Work could be defined only as an activity that an economic agent agrees to carry out for remuneration. The rest – the social function of work, the meaning it takes…
Competitiveness: why social security contributions should not be increased
While the cost of energy weighs more and more heavily on household and business budgets, the deficit in the French trade balance continues to widen. However, the causes of this…
Andreï Makine: “World War III is more and more likely”
The story of this man is also that of a century. Through the fate of his character Valdas Bataeff, Andreï Makine condenses in his new novel, The old calendar of…
Why the pessimism of the French is rational, by Gérald Bronner
International survey after international survey, commentators are often struck by the pessimism of the French. Thus, in 2012, during a vast Gallup study of 51 nations, our country came first…
Public finances: the year 2023 promises to be perilous
With sluggish growth and rising debt rates, the year 2023 is the year of all dangers. The Standard & Poor’s agency has placed France’s rating on negative watch and anticipates…
Napoleon: what he would have thought of Poutine, Macron and Mbappé
It is the story of a technical prowess that resurrects one of the greatest figures in our history. A young essayist and associate professor of classics, Raphaël Doan created, with…