When it becomes a cause, the humanist ideal can lead to blind spots and blindness. A warning against interpreting the world through the lens of the West’s colonial guilt.
The rule of law is one of the major achievements of modern society. But when the definition of the rule of law escapes the debate of ideas, it reduces politics to a technical matter. This evolution of liberal democracies is in tension with the spirit of the Enlightenment.
By demanding ever greater transparency, our societies paradoxically encourage conformism, surveillance and hypocrisy. Here is a defense of the right to silence, nuance, discretion and ambiguity, indispensable in a liberal democracy.
Faced with the injunctions of healthy living, the bon vivant emerges as a counter-model. An opportunity to re-explore this figure, which is far richer than a simple posture of resistance.
Bryan Johnson embodies an age governed by technology, where only that which can be quantified counts. A certain conception of health, compatible with this ethic of numbers, has become the central value. Even to the exclusion of other components of well-being.
While the Swiss people have settled – twice – the question of the amount of the audiovisual licence fee, at least for a while, the discussion on the offer provided by this compulsory levy must continue. The same applies to France.
Journalist Marianne Grosjean sends out a message in each of her columns. This month, she comments on advances in medically assisted reproduction (MAP) in Switzerland.
As he leaves our columns after four years of writing, video artist Ralph Müller reflects on the limits of political commentary and salutes «initiatives such as this magazine to encourage the circulation of ideas and reading».
Every month, youtuber Ralph Müller delivers his scathing analysis of a phenomenon typical of the times. This month, he explores the banality of evil through «Nuremberg».
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