Ask anyone if they're right or left-wing, and they'll probably know the answer. Not sure, however, whether they can fully justify their answer. But is the question itself relevant?
To mark the publication of his book Le déclin d'un monde, Jean-Baptiste Noé talks to us about the end of the West's dream of shaping the world in its own image. And he even dares to rejoice.
Liberalism and conservatism seem to be philosophically opposed, but meet with certain marriages in politics. So, are they compatible or incompatible? Two members of our editorial team cross swords in our feature on current cleavages.
The growing popularity of «populist» leaders in the Western world reflects a long-standing but ever-present divide between the elites and the people. This raises profound questions about what democracy should be. Gérard Araud, Chantal Delsol and David Goodhart help us do just that.
Russian-Ukrainian, former USSR diplomat under Brezhnev and Gorbachev, and author of an impressive literary work, Vladimir Fedorovsky gives Le Regard Libre his views on the conflict in Ukraine and its political and geopolitical consequences.
In 1978, the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, a dissident exiled in Oxford, proposed a definition of liberalism, conservatism and socialism that made them compatible and set a course to follow.
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.
Several missiles crash almost daily into specific targets in the port city. Precision shots made possible by informers. While the authorities encourage denunciation, the inhabitants survive, cut off from everything.
This Wednesday, October 12, we took part in a debate on the Federal Council's «magic formula» on the...