The desire of various countries to increase the proportion of biofuels in petrol highlights some important issues: the difficulty of a truly beneficial ecology, but also the essential role of governments in promoting value-based policies in the face of a globalized economy that seems to know only profitability as a criterion.
Communitarian discourse, currently in vogue and carried by minorities in need of an existence rather than victims of real repression, is torpedoing the fine 19th-century idea that the freedom of minorities should be preserved and defended, by transforming it into a weapon against freedom of expression, which includes, among other things, the right to humor. It is to be feared that the controversy provoked by French-speaking comedienne Claude Inga-Barbey's sketch dramatizing the difficulties of naming gender transformations illustrates an era marked by the thought police. From a philosophical point of view, this situation conceals an opposition between two types of universalism, that of proclaiming the rights of Man versus the rights of men.
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Clément Guntern | Alors que des élections législatives venaient de se tenir, l’armée birmane a surpris le monde entier en reprenant le pouvoir par la force. Après seulement deux mois de protestation, l’Etat birman risque de devenir un Etat failli de plus; avec son lot de conséquences dans une région qui gagne en centralité.
With the progress of science, particularly neuroscience, the possibility of free will is increasingly called into question. Every day, we discover new determinisms, i.e. conditionings to act in a certain way in a given context. Man's capacity for self-determination, which we hold so dear, may appear to be nothing more than an illusion. But before modern science got to grips with it, the question of free will already had a long history. Let's go back to the origins of a founding idea in the history of the West.
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Jean-David Ponci | On considère habituellement qu’avec Obama, les Etats-Unis commencent à renoncer à leur rôle de gendarmes du monde. Ce mouvement s’accélère avec Trump, dont le slogan «America First» sonne le repli des USA sur eux-mêmes. Toutefois, c’est curieusement à la fin du mandat de Trump qu’un nouveau pouvoir mondial, toujours en mains américaines, fait montre de sa puissance. Les GAFAM, acronyme pour les grandes entreprises Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon et Microsoft, censurent certains contenus pour des raisons politiques, révélant aux yeux du monde, scandalisé, qu’ils ne sont pas que des fournisseurs de service. Cette situation historique est propice à une réflexion sur les conditions à fournir pour garantir la liberté d’expression sur le Net. Analyse.
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Clément Guntern | At the start of this new century, a new order is gradually taking hold: authoritarianism around the world is gaining in power, and the states claiming to be authoritarian are asserting themselves with increasing brutality. Russia and China are raising their voices and threatening reprisals against anyone who dares to criticize the state of democratic principles and human rights on their territory. While escalation with Russia remains measured, China is agitating, vituperating and sanctioning. For the time being, it is mainly on their own territories that these states are committing more and more crimes, but for powers with global ambitions, it is to be feared that this is an exportable model of governance. Democratic principles are now under direct threat. As a result, democratic states have a duty to respond firmly to authoritarian forces, while leaving the door open to collaboration.
«Coronation»: from the land of the coronavirus to the crowning glory of China's response to the pandemic. Wuhan containment as seen by Ai Weiwei.
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Jean David-Ponci | La culture woke est apparue dans les années 2000 aux Etats-Unis pour décrire un militantisme en faveur des Noirs et, par extension, envers toutes les personnes jugées défavorisées en raison de leur appartenance ethnique, leur sexe, leur orientation sexuelle, leur physique ou leur handicap. De nombreux intellectuels de gauche comme de droite, le plus célèbre étant Barack Obama, ont condamné cette idéologie présente dans les universités. Aux Etats-Unis, la culture woke concerne en premier lieu la défense des Noirs, en particulier avec le mouvement Black Lives Matter, tandis qu’en Europe elle est surtout soutenue par les lobbys LGBT. Même si cette forme avancée de politiquement correct peut nous sembler ridicule, cette analyse nous fera découvrir que nous avons déjà admis les présupposés qui y mènent. Nous sommes tous déjà un peu woke sans en être conscients.
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Antoine Bernhard | To understand the ideology currently reigning in some universities, it's worth looking at the recent history of the United States, where this ideology was born. In 2017, the enigmatic Donald Trump was sworn in for four years as head of the world's leading power. Today, it's time to take stock. While all the media agree in decrying Trump's disastrous policies, few analyze the context that has enabled the triumph of a new American populism. Thirty years during which the left has retreated into an increasingly individualistic and anti-republican ideal, disregarding the need for a real political vision. This is what left-wing intellectual and Columbia University professor Mark Lilla analyzed in his 2018 book «The Identity Left».
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