Label: May 68
Sex, a political object?

Sex, a political object?

DOSSIER «LE SEXE SANS COMPLEXE» | L’historien français René Rémond, décédé en 2007, a concentré la réponse à cette question en une formule choc: le sexe, a-t-il écrit en 1987, est entré en politique en 1968! Cet aphorisme sous-entendrait-il que le sexe et la politique, avant cette date, auraient vécu dans des sphères séparées, ne se croisant à la rigueur que dans la vie privée des acteurs et actrices de la vie politique?
Fear of intelligence at university

Fear of intelligence at university

At the beginning of January 2021, students at the Sorbonne protested against the holding of «in-person» partial exams in most faculties, as announced a few days ago. If the French press is to be believed, the revolt is growing louder and louder, all the more so as the start of the 2020 academic year had already taken place in a climate of high tension, linked to the health situation and the difficulty of finding places in lecture theaters. While these material reasons have legitimately led some students to express their discontent, there are quite different, systemic reasons that should have prompted them to rise up much earlier, in an attempt to save an institution at the end of its reign, not to say at the end of the race. My experience at seven different universities bears witness to this.