As he leaves our columns after four years of writing, video artist Ralph Müller reflects on the limits of political commentary and salutes «initiatives such as this magazine to encourage the circulation of ideas and reading».
As Bern prepares to regulate social networks, misinformation and hate speech return to the heart of the public information service issue. Some want a stricter framework, but digital hell is paved with good intentions.
Musical improvisation is a beautiful metaphor for free expression: an art of addressing others, seeking clarity and weaving a fragile harmony, where each voice is prepared but daring.
Far from heralding the end of journalism, artificial intelligence can free newsrooms from mechanical tasks and offer more time for investigating, analyzing and polishing texts. On one condition.
Economics is a language of models and equations. Yet its foundations are philosophical. Giving heterodox currents back their rightful place means restoring the vitality and pluralism of this discipline - and thus its link with liberalism.
Political debate requires us to distinguish between what is principled and what is practical, to avoid both pure ideology and technocracy.
As debate becomes polarized and personal, Antoine Vuille defends the importance of rigorous argumentation. The philosopher invites us to avoid the vices that weaken the exchange of ideas in a democracy, not without avoiding a few vexing questions.
Politically correct means claiming to be right, but without opening up to debate, while politically incorrect means opening up to debate, but without taking reason into account. Two options to be rejected, because debate and reason go hand in hand.
The host of the late cult TV show «Ce soir ou jamais», who takes over the helm of «Marianne» magazine on March 1, is publishing a series of volumes with Grasset, each listing what celebrities did at a particular age. Autumn meeting in Paris.