World

Girard and Yarvin: two thinkers of Trumpian populism

By Yann Costa · March 31, 2026

One reveals how societies unite by naming culprits. The other wants to put an end to violence through power without checks and balances. Everything seems to oppose them, but their ideas form an intellectual foundation for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's conception of the people.

Policy

«The nation is the opposite of tribes»

By Jonas Follonier · March 29, 2026

In «Anti-civilization», Etienne-Alexandre Beauregard argues for a conservatism of the common good. Nation, shared culture and the «ordinary man» are, according to the 25-year-old Quebec essayist, the forgotten conditions of liberal democracy.

History

Populism is not a contemporary phenomenon

By Antoine Lévêque · March 28, 2026

The term populist is a modern invention. Yet it says nothing about a dynamic whose mainspring can be found as far back as antiquity: criticism of the imperfections of the political system, with the aim of amending it.

History

Elected and virtual, the Swiss people demystified by François Walter

By Nicolas Brodard · March 15, 2026

Author of a canonical «History of Switzerland» and of recent guided walks in his series «Au fil de l'histoire suisse», the university professor welcomes Le Regard Libre a few steps from the medieval ramparts of Fribourg.