His reporting and exile took him to the four corners of Europe to document the upheavals of his time. Today, Seville's Manuel Chaves Nogales has re-emerged as the best Spanish journalist of the 20th century.
French essayist Samuel Fitoussi publishes «Pourquoi les intellectuels se trompent», an incisive essay on the mechanisms that drive certain brilliant minds to defend absurd ideas, with sometimes disastrous consequences.
José Ortega y Gasset rarely figures among the most quoted and studied philosophers. Yet his political, social and moral diagnoses are still relevant today. Portrait of a major thinker of the 20th century.
The limits of free speech, its expression through caricature and the challenges posed by wokism to this fundamental right. These themes were at the heart of the 2025 edition of this annual meeting, co-organized by Le Regard Libre, which took place on Saturday.
At a time of geopolitical turbulence, interventionism may be desirable, provided that political power is capable of reversing course afterwards. However, nothing is less certain for a country like France, which is already over-indebted.
The victories of Trump and Milei place the European right at an ideological crossroads. Precisely in order to avoid falling behind, especially economically, the Old Continent urgently needs to draw on its own intellectual heritage.
In «Ce que je veux sauver», Peggy Sastre defends the foundations of universalism against tribalism and relativism. The editorialist at Le Point believes that France is particularly vulnerable to these increasingly powerful trends.
Karl Popper understood that science and responsibility are inseparable. This is particularly true today.
Many studies of the reign of Frederick II, King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, emphasize the authoritarian nature of the regime he led. To leave it at that, however, would be to overlook the liberal orientation of the political writings of this «enlightened despot».
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