Surrogate motherhood is not legal in Switzerland. Like other bioethical issues, it marks a deep division between conservatives and progressives. This is an opportunity to attempt a definition of these terms, a few months ahead of the federal elections.
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.
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.
Liberalism and conservatism seem to be philosophically opposed, but meet with certain marriages in politics. So, are they compatible or incompatible? Two members of our editorial team cross swords in our feature on current cleavages.
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.
Right-wing, left-wing, conservative, reactionary, progressive, liberal, socialist, communist, universalist, populist, environmentalist, interventionist, protectionist, sovereignist... so many labels that structure...
Le Peuple is launching in French-speaking Switzerland this week as a biweekly print publication and a website. According to...
Editorial by Jonas Follonier
As inclusive writing exerts its grip ever more violently on people's minds, including those of pedagogues who are no longer shy about imposing it on schools, it's time to determine what ailment it's a symptom of, so that we can get rid of it.