Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in the magazine Idées, for the theme “cancel culture” or “cancellation culture” in French: Henry Laurens, historian, holder of the chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World at the Collège de France, who just wrote The imposed past (Fayard) and Pierre Vesperini, historian, specialist in Greek and Latin antiquity, author of What to do with the past? Thoughts on cancel culture (Fayard).