After more than twelve years of helping «Le Regard Libre» grow, I am stepping down from my executive role with mixed feelings, but I am happy to know that this collective endeavor is strong enough to continue on its own under the editorial leadership of Pablo Sánchez. See you in September!
By demanding ever greater transparency, our societies paradoxically encourage conformism, surveillance and hypocrisy. Here is a defense of the right to silence, nuance, discretion and ambiguity, indispensable in a liberal democracy.
While the Swiss people have settled – twice – the question of the amount of the audiovisual licence fee, at least for a while, the discussion on the offer provided by this compulsory levy must continue. The same applies to France.
Consecrating a heritage whose core is individual liberty, liberal-conservatism can form a coherent synthesis rather than a fragile compromise. Here is an outline, drawing on Burke, Scruton and Kolnai as well as Smith, Tocqueville and Hayek.
The Alpine Republic likes to think of itself as a model of liberalism. Yet, between the complaint against a French satirist and the government's silence in the face of European sanctions against Jacques Baud, the country is failing the test of defending freedom.
In touting the idea of a label that would distinguish «reliable» media from others, Emmanuel Macron betrayed an authoritarian attitude of believing that one or more individuals have the legitimacy to define what everyone should trust.
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.
Maximum freedom of expression and a ban on alcohol in public spaces. Pornography and prudishness... There's no shortage of paradoxes on the other side of the Atlantic, but not trying to hide them is less hypocritical than believing oneself to be devoid of them. A lesson for Europe.
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.
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