History

Sex, a political object?

By Olivier Meuwly · 05 September 2022

DOSSIER «LE SEXE SANS COMPLEXE» | The French historian René Rémond, who died in 2007, summed up the answer to this question in a shocking formula: sex, he wrote in 1987, entered politics in 1968! Does this aphorism imply that sex and politics, prior to that date, lived in separate spheres, intersecting only in the private lives of political actors and actresses?

Policy

Make the margins the center

By Jean Romain · August 21, 2022

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.

Philosophy

A Europe still questioning its roots

By Jean-David Ponci · August 19, 2022

What if Europe lay in the antagonism born of the Renaissance between the Christian and scientific worldviews? This opposition has always been present in different forms at different times. Today, it has taken on a new dimension: some argue that a materialistic reading of the world is now impossible, given current physical theories.

Policy

The melancholy of the «true left»

By Ivan Garcia · March 16, 2019

Faced with the failures of the twentieth century, the left has shifted ground. More concerned with the fate of minorities than workers, it disappointed. But from the ashes of that disappointment comes a strange feeling: melancholy. This is the key to the return of the «true left».