Tag: Ideas and debates
Régis Debray: his personal “failures” and our collective errors
We never knew, in the end, why Régis Debray had shaved the bacchantes. One day, when he was about 60 years old, he no longer had them. It was necessary…
A Secular Muslim Told by Her Atheist Jewish Friend
One might think that our society is definitely in decline, as Jacques Julliard says, rotten by the identity, sexual and miserable claims of supposedly oppressed groups, by the intersection of…
How Elon Musk and the FTX scandal damaged the philosophy of “long-termism”
On March 29, 2022, Elon Musk received an SMS from an associate professor at Oxford offering to put him in touch with an investor “potentially interested in buying Twitter to…
“Races”, differences between men and women … When the far right manipulates science
Legitimizing slavery, colonization or inequalities of rights between men and women… For centuries, science has been used to justify discriminatory ideologies. At the beginning of the 20th century, the eugenics…
The three anti-scientific dogmas of Wokism
Last year, L’Express devoted its Christmas issue to the dangerous links between religion and science. This year, we have investigated the threats to rationality that come not from an age-old…
The new obscurantists – The file of L’Express
Will wokism contaminate science? Whereas for several decades, the threats against science came rather from religious movements (creationism) or from the right (climatoscepticism), a new obscurantism is developing today on…
Biology, medicine… When the wokisation of knowledge contaminates the sciences
Political liberalism was born of a triple separation, between the State and the Church, between the rational individual and the community, and between science and belief. In liberal countries, the…
Gérald Darmanin, victim of counterfactual thinking, by Gérald Bronner
Admittedly, despite calls for a boycott, the FIFA World Cup in Qatar has occupied our minds a lot, but that does not explain everything… On Wednesday December 14, Gérald Darmanin…
Café Laïque vandalized: “Shit, the ultimate argument of neo-fascist trans activists”
On December 15, a conference by Céline Masson and Caroline Eliacheff at the Café Laïque in Brussels was first disrupted, then prevented by a group of young hooded activists, who…
And man invented music: the origins of a (very) ancient art
In the beginning was the rhythm. 165 million ago, in a Jurassic forest, a cricket rubbed its wings rhythmically. Then, the melody: 66 million years ago, a Cretaceous bird “sang”.…