The uproar caused in the highest circles by the appointment of the former boss of «Valeurs actuelles» as director of the «Journal du dimanche» is selective and misplaced indignation. Here's a brief development of the point of view I expressed on RTS on July 4.
In Switzerland, France, and indeed all over Western Europe and the USA, with nuances by country, the left no longer resembles itself. The story of a major electoral shift.
Au nom du combat contre l’extrême droite, tout semble permis pour certains journalistes. Y compris ne pas apporter la contradiction...
Antoine Menusier, journalist and essayist: «Mr. Director of RTS Pascal Crittin, how can you let a guest make shocking and untrue statements without reacting?»
Is the polemicist convicted of anti-Semitism, and now on trial for racism, really your typical ultra-right thinker? Doesn't he also have a bit of the left in his mix? These are the issues at stake in defining extremes, at a time when progressivism sometimes has totalitarian overtones.
At the «Right-Wing Convention» on Saturday, September 28, French polemicist Eric Zemmour delivered a speech that many considered racist and Islamophobic. Did he cross the line? A point-by-point analysis, without any cheap moralizing.
Metin Arditi's latest novel, Carnaval noir, was released in August 2018 by Editions Grasset. Telling a suspenseful tale of the eternal return of human folly, it can be read at any time as a warning. And it could well be that our era is not immune to some infernal carnival.
Le Regard Libre N° 38 - Clément Guntern The recent advance of ’far-right« parties in Europe...
Le Regard Libre N° 31 - Jonas Follonier On August 12, in Virginia, a 32-year-old woman was...
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