Pierre Valentin is best known for dissecting the revolutionary nature of wokism in his first book, published last year by Gallimard. The 26-year-old essayist has since launched «Transmission», a YouTube channel to interest his generation in intellectuals.
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?
Eugénie Bastié, a journalist in the «Ideas» section of the French daily Le Figaro, offers her diagnosis of the «war of ideas» in France and the theme of immigration, which is present in its own way in the French intellectual debate and reveals new cleavages.