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 French comedienne and humorist, who will perform at the Morges-sous-Rire festival in June, claims that theater saved her and regrets the «bad spirit» of the time. We met her in her dressing room after a sold-out one-woman show in Grône, Valais.
Is a political system based on individual freedom desirable? For Plato, no: 2,500 years ago, he already saw democracy as a chaotic political organization leading to disorder, then tyranny.
School uniforms have never been generalized in Swiss public schools, although they remain the norm in many countries. Between the desire to harmonize appearances and the desire to preserve diversity, should we take the plunge?
The founders of Lucerne's Institute for Economic Policy (IWP) were awarded the Bonny Foundation's Freedom Prize 2025 on Thursday in Berne. The Foundation praised the contribution of these two «intellectual entrepreneurs» to debate and knowledge.
Every month, youtuber Ralph Müller delivers his scathing analysis of a social phenomenon. This time, he looks at the weight of freedom, and the courage it takes to exercise it.
Etienne de La Boétie wrote this 16th-century text between the ages of 16 and 18, and according to Pascal Couchepin, there's «something refreshing» about it. Every month, the former federal councillor shares a reading that struck a chord with him.
It's an indisputable fact, according to Jean-Claude Michéa: economic and political liberalism are the two sides of a single «liberal logic» that is at the root of our modern societies. Dive into «The Empire of the Lesser Evil».
With wokism, withdrawal into one's own identity became a sign of rejection of the Enlightenment. Is this still the case? Isn't getting together between women - or between men - a legitimate demand, albeit one that wokes up to in a very incoherent way?
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