Tag: Ideas and debates
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…
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…