«Far from embodying the lucidity or rigor expected of them, our political, academic, intellectual and artistic elites often seem out of touch with the realities they claim to govern, enlighten or change. By dint of confusing social virtue with the search for truth, goodness or beauty, they persist in sinking into incoherence without ever assuming the consequences. This dossier explores the mechanisms that lead to this irresponsibility, including ideological blindness, socio-cultural entrenchment and the cult of prestige.
Under the guise of inclusion and social justice, universities too often sacrifice scientific rigor to ideology. According to historian Olivier Moos, this drift compromises its primary mission: to shed light on reality rather than to serve causes.
L’essayiste français Samuel Fitoussi publie «Pourquoi les intellectuels se trompent», un essai incisif sur les mécanismes qui poussent certains esprits brillants à défendre des idées absurdes, avec des conséquences parfois …
One of the members of our editorial team recently received a definitive rejection from an art school. His work was deemed insufficiently imbued with a certain type of discourse ...
To criticize the elites is not to reject them, but rather to believe in their mission. Provided we don't fall into systematic opposition.
Dans la tourmente pour s’être rendue en avion dans la péninsule arabique, la politicienne verte a rendu malgré elle un hommage appuyé à la pensée de l’historien américain Christopher Lasch, …
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