Section: Policy
Zemmour as a candidate: good news for everyone

Zemmour as a candidate: good news for everyone

Essayist Eric Zemmour is officially a candidate for the presidency of the French Republic. He chose the form of a personal video posted on social networks this Tuesday November 30 at 12:00 to officially announce this, before answering a few questions from Gilles Bouleau on TF1's 20 heures. While the transformation of the editorialist and writer into a politician is rather worrying news, whatever our position on his analyses, it is also very positive. And for everyone, too.
Ethiopia: from promises of prosperity to civil war

Ethiopia: from promises of prosperity to civil war

Considered by some as the «China of Africa» in the 2000s and 2010s, Ethiopia looked set to enjoy a new prosperity as it opened up to the world, a far cry from the famines and wars of the past century. How could such promises have been lost, and Ethiopia plunged into civil war?
Covid certificate: the underside of health authoritarianism

Covid certificate: the underside of health authoritarianism

Like Pandora's box, the question of the Covid certificate, once opened, unleashes a multitude of complex themes that question our relationship to authority. It also reveals that modern thinking has yet to mature with regard to the difficult question of the dividing line between the public and private spheres, which 19th-century liberals had highlighted in their writings. By way of example, the media and the general public talk about the majority and the minority, without realizing that the latter is actually threatened in this new episode of the Covid certificate in the pandemic soap opera. Indeed, non-vaccinators will soon be considered persona non grata in the public arena, which is reminiscent of the mechanisms of social stigmatization, particularly tragic in the case of the Covid certificate.