The intensification of trade after 1989 nurtured the idea of a world governed by cooperation. Today, geopolitical rivalries are overturning this belief and reshaping economic relations.
One reveals how societies unite by naming culprits. The other wants to put an end to violence through power without checks and balances. Everything seems to oppose them, but their ideas form an intellectual foundation for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's conception of the people.
In «Anti-civilization», Etienne-Alexandre Beauregard argues for a conservatism of the common good. Nation, shared culture and the «ordinary man» are, according to the 25-year-old Quebec essayist, the forgotten conditions of liberal democracy.
Activists and radical left-wing figures march in Cuba in the name of anti-imperialism, but turn a blind eye to the reality of a dictatorship that counts over 1,200 political prisoners.
National cohesion, political divisions, external threats: Switzerland needs a new «spiritual national defense», argues historian and centrist member of the Fribourg Grand Council Bernhard Altermatt.
The former ambassador delivers a harsh indictment of Swiss and EU foreign policy, criticizing their alignment with NATO and calling for the Confederation's diplomatic credibility to be restored.
In «L'Afrique contre la démocratie», Senegalese journalist Ousmane Ndiaye dismantles an increasingly widespread narrative: that of a continent supposedly incompatible with democracy. A vigorous investigation of an idea that has become an alibi for the new authoritarianisms.
The Alpine Republic likes to think of itself as a model of liberalism. Yet, between the complaint against a French satirist and the government's silence in the face of European sanctions against Jacques Baud, the country is failing the test of defending freedom.
The new taxation of married couples could damage the family unit. That's the view put forward in this column. But to reach this conclusion, a detour to Arctic Siberia is in order.
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