World

Saudi Arabia: sport as soft power

By Max Frei · November 28, 2023

Faced with repeated scandals over human rights violations, Saudi Arabia is hoping to restore its image by investing heavily in sport.

Sport

In ten years, athletics has moved against the tide

By Yves Di Cristino · 21 October 2023

Over the last few years, sport has repeatedly shown that less tolerance for the lottery of individuals can lead to greater fairness. A position based on merit that contradicts fashionable theories. Here's a look back at the most high-profile case of the decade.

Philosophy

Animal rights: towards anti-humanism

By Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard · 16 April 2022

Le Regard Libre No. 84 – Antoine Bernhard Special Feature: «Man and Animal» This is a call that is gaining traction today: we should...

World

Figure of the Algerian Hirak, Kaddour Chouicha, surrounded by the authorities, testifies

By Antoine Menusier · 10 May 2021

Couple to the city, Kaddour Chouicha and Djamila Loukil, respectively vice-president of the Algerian League for Human Rights (LADDH) and journalist, are being prosecuted in Algeria on suspicion of links with political Islam, which they categorically deny, calling themselves «secular». The democratic uprising that began in 2019 and which they support is increasingly described as infiltrated by Islamists. Kaddour Chouicha answered Regard Libre's questions.

History

Left and right according to Olivier Meuwly

By Nicolas Jutzet · March 12, 2017

LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Nicolas Jutzet | Are the political terms «left» and «right» relevant? Do they really mean anything? Shouldn't they be used more sparingly, as our editor-in-chief advocated in his editorial of October 2015? Historian Oliver Meuwly believes that these two categories have been inseparable from political thought since the French Revolution, and that they enable us to pinpoint the trends that characterize our political landscape. In his book «La droite et la gauche» (2016), the liberal-radical from Vaud recalls the history of these two terms while analyzing their deep and current meaning.