Accused of anti-Semitism following a tweet, the rapper from Le Havre was a guest at the summer universities of the ecologists and La France insoumise. Where the word Islamism is no longer uttered. At the same time, Gabriel Attal banned the wearing of the abaya in schools.
Once, they were the emancipating free spirits. Today, they want to rule everything. A short history of the left's descent into hell, particularly in Germany, but also to some extent in Switzerland.
Ask anyone if they're right or left-wing, and they'll probably know the answer. Not sure, however, whether they can fully justify their answer. But is the question itself relevant?
Right-wing, left-wing, conservative, reactionary, progressive, liberal, socialist, communist, universalist, populist, environmentalist, interventionist, protectionist, sovereignist... so many labels that structure...
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.
Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard and Jonas Follonier The double majority rule of the people and the cantons has been snubbed by...
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Antoine Bernhard | To understand the ideology currently reigning in some universities, it's worth looking at the recent history of the United States, where this ideology was born. In 2017, the enigmatic Donald Trump was sworn in for four years as head of the world's leading power. Today, it's time to take stock. While all the media agree in decrying Trump's disastrous policies, few analyze the context that has enabled the triumph of a new American populism. Thirty years during which the left has retreated into an increasingly individualistic and anti-republican ideal, disregarding the need for a real political vision. This is what left-wing intellectual and Columbia University professor Mark Lilla analyzed in his 2018 book «The Identity Left».
In its violent expression, Islamism struck again in France on Thursday, October 29. After the attack that claimed the life of a teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on October 16, a terrorist stabbed three people to death in the basilica in Nice. To combat this scourge, it is important to recognize and situate Islamism, a revanchist ideology that is above all political. It must be dissociated from Muslims.
His mind races. If you ask Jean Birnbaum a question, expect him to reel off sentence after sentence, reference after reference. He takes you to corners of your mind you’ve never explored before. Here is an intelligent and honest man who has the audacity to look within our weaknesses for the sources from which to draw renewed strength. He reveals and analyzes these weaknesses in *The Religion of the Weak. What Jihadism Says About Us,« which he published following the success of his book *A Religious Silence: The Left Facing Jihadism*. Jean Birnbaum is a journalist at *Le Monde*, where he edits the literary section, »Le Monde des Livres.«.
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