Many of those whose existence today consists of tracking down and fighting «wokism» everywhere tend to equate it with Marxism. A simplistic and somewhat haphazard association, far from unanimous.
The Liber-thé media recently invited me to take part in a video interview on the subject of wokism and how it can be criticized from a classical liberal point of view. The Ligue vaudoise also invited me to speak on the subject on a Wednesday in March. Here's what I had to say.
Au Salon du Livre de Genève, le 26 mars dernier, Le Regard Libre a organisé une rencontre avec Jean-François Braunstein, auteur de l’essai remarqué «La religion woke». Cet entretien a réuni un large public et a donné lieu à un témoignage fort de la part d’une étudiante.
On Saturday, at the Journée libérale romande co-organized by Le Regard Libre, Olivier Massin, Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel, showed what kind of liberalism it is wise to defend if you value the idea of education. Striking.
Today's schools, under the rule of the educational sciences, wander at random. Like a headless hen, it rushes along according to fashions and intellectual currents. To save it, we urgently need to answer the question of the purpose of education.
Au box-office médiatique de ce début d’année, il y a le drame ukrainien, la menace climatique, les prix qui s’envolent, et… les Sussex. Une série sur Netflix, des mémoires sorties le 10 janvier: Harry et Meghan sont partout. Célèbres? Oui, d’une certaine façon…
While John Rawls defines the redistributive tax as an application of the principle of equity to compensate for inequalities between individuals, Robert Nozick likens it to forced labor. This twentieth-century controversy is still with us today. Regards croisés.
The provocative French MP Sandrine Rousseau recently saw fit to proclaim the existence of a «right to laziness». Emotion on all sides. But why does the association of these two terms go so wrong? Let's take a look at the concept of laziness.
The spotlight has just fallen on Qatar, the much-criticized host of the Football World Cup, because of its relative lack of respect for human rights. In fact, Qatar is sitting on a concept central to any democratic society: equality.