Everyone dreams of a school free of political influence. But isn't that just wishful thinking? History reminds us that it is through schools that the future of a society is at stake. In Switzerland, it was even through politics that peace was achieved.
On November 22, Iran declared that it had reached an unprecedented level of uranium enrichment, an essential step towards obtaining the atomic bomb. The announcement may not have made the headlines, but it is not without repercussions for world geopolitics.
The Americans - and to a lesser extent their Western allies - are no strangers to the curious exercise of exporting democracy to non-democratic countries by force of arms. A practice with rather mixed results.
«Just because a state isn't liberal doesn't mean it can't be a democracy». In 2014, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, irritated at receiving lessons in democracy, assumed his «illiberalism». Is this just a publicity stunt?
Ever since the wave that brought Donald Trump to power, particularly since his challenge to the 2016 election result, American democracy seems to be going from bad to worse. Far from content with this, conservatives are ready to go even further.
As we know, sports are far more political than their leading figures would have us believe. An act of diplomatic bad faith concerning the contentious Israel-Palestine issue went almost unnoticed in Doha… A journey into the heart of FIFA’s contradictions.
Rarely has a state lie had such dramatic consequences. In 2003, the Bush administration presented false evidence of Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, before invading the country and getting bogged down in a bloody war.
According to Kant, a lie undermines the foundations of the state, while a deceptive truth is acceptable. Two centuries later, with President Clinton, the same logic still seems to be at work in the Lewinsky affair.
Ask anyone if they're right or left-wing, and they'll probably know the answer. Not sure, however, whether they can fully justify their answer. But is the question itself relevant?
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