Tag: Ideas and debates
Bernard Arnault, voodoo tool of the radical left, by Sylvain Fort
The thought of a certain French radical left is reminiscent of those little labyrinth games that were given to children in the past to occupy them. The principle is that…
Authoritarian Russians, eccentric Englishmen… Where do our prejudices come from?
It is well known: mothers-in-law are cowhides, criminals have a dirty mouth, and the Chinese eat dogs. But where exactly do these stereotypes come from? Prejudices die so hard that…
Erdogan-Assad rapprochement: “Syrian refugees and Kurds will be the scapegoats”
For months, the announcement of an agreement between the Syrian and Turkish regimes, enemies since 2011, has been circulating in the media of the Middle East. Panic gripped Syrians living…
Elisabeth Badinter: “France is gerontophobic”
Geneviève Delaisi de Parseval has two strings to her bow. To psychoanalysis, which is her job, she adds a training as an anthropologist acquired from the greatest. The two together…
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…