ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Jean David-Ponci | La culture woke est apparue dans les années 2000 aux Etats-Unis pour décrire un militantisme en faveur des Noirs et, par extension, envers toutes les personnes jugées défavorisées en raison de leur appartenance ethnique, leur sexe, leur orientation sexuelle, leur physique ou leur handicap. De nombreux intellectuels de gauche comme de droite, le plus célèbre étant Barack Obama, ont condamné cette idéologie présente dans les universités. Aux Etats-Unis, la culture woke concerne en premier lieu la défense des Noirs, en particulier avec le mouvement Black Lives Matter, tandis qu’en Europe elle est surtout soutenue par les lobbys LGBT. Même si cette forme avancée de politiquement correct peut nous sembler ridicule, cette analyse nous fera découvrir que nous avons déjà admis les présupposés qui y mènent. Nous sommes tous déjà un peu woke sans en être conscients.
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.
Every month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who take turns writing for Le Regard Libre. Freelance journalist Sophie Woeldgen shares her views as a reporter in the Middle East on an itchy subject.
Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of taking up the pen in turn. Writer Roland Jaccard recounts his favorite film, as implausible as it is politically correct: the movie of his life.
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Eugène Praz | One of the invigorating features of contemporary literature is that its novels bring together places, eras, generations, peoples and social classes - if that term is still valid - in a pleasing variety of forms and plots. The latter, sometimes very fanciful, are often deliciously comic; think, for example, of the novels, aimed above all at a female audience, by the meritoriously popular Isabel Wolff. This variety could be seen as a way of comforting each individual in his or her place or «path». Everyone? Perhaps not. On the contrary, it would seem that while the field of unexpected human interaction has certainly expanded in literature, its internal influence, through the depth of its characters and the quality of its descriptions, has diminished. As a result, its appeal to the public has lost some of its force. A brief review of some serious shortcomings, without any personal attacks - we're past that.
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Laure Mi Hyun Croset | As if it were the last bastion against barbarism, the French language is often at the heart of fierce debate. It's accused of being impoverished or, on the contrary, degraded by the addition of less euphonious terms to its lexicon, or of English terms that already exist in the language of Molière.
Vieillesse et confinement: une crise d'humanité?
Loris Musumeci, rédacteur en chef adjoint du Regard Libre, quitte le média après plus de six ans de collaboration. Voici sa lettre d'adieu.
The sporting world reacted boldly and energetically to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has now made it standard practice to set up an anti-racism podium before every Grand Prix this season. On a black-tinted podium, he knelt on the ground and raised his fist to the sky in recognition of the Black Lives Matter movement. For their part, American professional basketball players have long been accustomed to the practice on NBA floors, and awareness of the fight against all forms of discrimination is gaining ground. But are there any risks in dramatizing this lifelong struggle? Flashback to the Olympic Games of 1936 and 1968.
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