Tag: Ideas and debates
Goldman, Mbappé… Why the French prefer singers and athletes to heroes
The beginning of the year brings its share of uncertainties, but one thing remains, reassuring and unchanged: the ranking of the favorite personalities of the French. Far be it from…
Readers’ letters: Obscurantists, Putin, electricity prices…
The new obscurantists René Andron, Marseilles (Bouches-du-Rhône) At a time when the content of social networks replaces general culture, reflection and debate, the risk is real that a minority of…
Gwenaëlle d’Aboville: “Consultation is not a waste of time”
For any urban development, it is essential to take into account the opinion of residents and all users, for example, students and employees who frequent a district without necessarily living…
Why Brazil’s insurgency is a worrying omen, by Yascha Mounk
Three days ago, cable news stations marked the second anniversary of the Capitol storming by showing over and over again the videos taken on January 6, 2021. Anyone who watched…
Stock market: France is popular, by Jean-François Copé
Who says new year, says good resolutions! In January, the gyms fill up while the meals lighten up. But, at the start of 2023, perhaps it is not too late…
Prince Harry is fascinated by only one thing: death, by Sylvain Fort
Since Prince Harry’s book was put on sale too soon by a Spanish bookstore, the crispiest passages have flooded the world press. Spare, it is his title: in French, the…
Comment by Omar Sy: “A controversy launched by people who know nothing about skirmishers”
Anthony Guyon, professor at Sciences Po, is the author of the book Senegalese skirmishers – From native to soldier, from 1857 to the present day (Perrin, 2022). On the occasion…
What ChatGPT taught me about Macron and Shakespeare, by Sylvain Fort
Like many, I tested ChatGPT, and I was dazzled. The speed and precision with which one obtains not only factual answers to pointed questions, but even complete and structured presentations…
Marcel Proust: why we will miss him even more in 2023
We won’t regret 2022 much. Full of sound and fury, this year will undoubtedly be remembered as the year that took us one step closer to global chaos. Private (or…
“Avatar 2”: the triumph of the hatred of humanity, by Gérald Bronner
Hard to missAvatar 2, one of the biggest blockbusters in the history of cinema. The status of works of fiction has always been ambiguous in relation to collective representations of…