Between family heritage and decisive innovation, Véronique Besson-Rouvinez retraces the rise of her estate and defends a freer viticulture. In the face of foreign competition and regulatory constraints, she calls for the freeing of energies.
Consecrating a heritage whose core is individual liberty, liberal-conservatism can form a coherent synthesis rather than a fragile compromise. Here is an outline, drawing on Burke, Scruton and Kolnai as well as Smith, Tocqueville and Hayek.
The founder of QoQa inaugurates our series of economic interviews devoted to the country's future. He describes the keys to his model and the burden of bureaucracy, and argues for greater support for entrepreneurs in the face of foreign competition.
In «Anti-civilization», Etienne-Alexandre Beauregard argues for a conservatism of the common good. Nation, shared culture and the «ordinary man» are, according to the 25-year-old Quebec essayist, the forgotten conditions of liberal democracy.
The Alpine Republic likes to think of itself as a model of liberalism. Yet, between the complaint against a French satirist and the government's silence in the face of European sanctions against Jacques Baud, the country is failing the test of defending freedom.
Peggy Sastre and Leonardo Orlando denounce the academic and media omerta that today surrounds the differences between men and women. Drawing on decades of scientific research, they call for a return to fact-based debate.
Everyone knows Elon Musk, but hardly anyone wants to be an entrepreneur. Yet entrepreneurship still holds a fascination, as our micro-trottles with young people in Lausanne and Zurich show.
Placed at the heart of a heated national debate on the licence fee, accused of ideological bias and condemned to make savings, Switzerland's public broadcasting system is going through a turbulent period. Pascal Crittin, head of the French-speaking part of the company, responds to the critics.
A defender of universalism, the Syrian writer who has taken refuge in the land of Voltaire and Molière pleads for reason against identity-based drift. On Thursday in Geneva, he will present his book «Les complices du mal» documenting the anti-Semitism of France insoumise.
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