Whether or not to lock up an accused person is sometimes a Cornelian choice. A reflection on freedom and security, based on two contemporary novels.
In today's legal landscape, the notion of fundamental rights is the subject of lively debate, fuelled by questions about their origin, scope and legitimacy. At the heart of this discussion is, in my view, the notion of natural rights. This age-old idea, which is particularly opposed to legal positivism, is resurfacing with renewed relevance in modern legal debates.
In a podcast published in September 2019, entitled «My body, my choice», the hosts of the online media Liber-thé presented their arguments in favor of drug legalization. A purely liberal argument, not without a major weakness.
The first French translation of the work of Aliyeh Ataei, Iranian writer and journalist, «La frontière des oubliés», her fifth publication, paints a picture of bitter-tasting exile in nine short stories. Chilling.
Enarque, avocat de la liberté, militaire, écrivain. François Sureau a vécu mille vies. Elu à l’Académie française en 2020, le voilà immortel. Rencontre autour de son ouvrage Un an dans la forêt, qui s’intéresse à Blaise Cendrars, l’écrivain bourlingueur suisse.
J’aurais tendance à dire que Le domaine Pouchkine est un roman sur des questions existentielles. Des questions existentielles concernant un...
To the contemporary reader, the anti-individualist stance of a liberal may seem strange. Not so: Tocqueville defines individualism as...
LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Jean-David Ponci | Taking vaccine hesitants and anti-sanitary passers-by seriously, trying to answer their questions by countering their positions with arguments, helps us all to identify the flaws in our societies and to rethink together the notions of solidarity and freedom. Interview with doctor and theologian Bertrand Kiefer, editor-in-chief of the Swiss Medical Journal.
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