The Liber-thé media recently invited me to take part in a video interview on the subject of wokism and how it can be criticized from a classical liberal point of view. The Ligue vaudoise also invited me to speak on the subject on a Wednesday in March. Here's what I had to say.
At the Geneva Book Fair on March 26, Le Regard Libre organized a meeting with Jean-François Braunstein, author of the acclaimed essay «La religion woke». The interview was well attended, and included a powerful testimonial from a student.
On Saturday, at the Journée libérale romande co-organized by Le Regard Libre, Olivier Massin, Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel, showed what kind of liberalism it is wise to defend if you value the idea of education. Striking.
Inheritance tax is a particularly questionable levy, although it has many supporters. At least, that's what can be gleaned from a 2014 book by the Liberal Institute offering a stimulating defense of the institution of inheritance.
Founder of the Forum for a Progressive Islam, Tunisian-born Zurich essayist Saïda Keller-Messahli is concerned about the presence of Islamism in Switzerland and Europe, even in state and international bodies. Interview.
With the recent elections to the Federal Council, the question has returned to the forefront of the political scene: lobbies...
It may sound like a trite phrase, like «there's no such thing as hot without cold», but remembering that there's no such thing as a lie without the truth has the merit of bringing back to the table a fact that has become too old-fashioned in certain intellectual circles: truth exists.
In 1978, the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, a dissident exiled in Oxford, proposed a definition of liberalism, conservatism and socialism that made them compatible and set a course to follow.
Director of the Religioscope Institute in Fribourg, Jean-François Mayer is a specialist in new religious movements. Among his subjects of study: beliefs in the end of the world, which belong to the spiritual realm, but not only... Interview.
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