This section brings together all the analyses classified under this theme.
Where Jacques Robert denounces the decision of the mayor of Mont-Saint-Aignan to symbolically burn a facsimile of a book during the 60th anniversary of the University of Rouen: does this reveal ignorance, stupidity or ideological contempt for knowledge and culture?
Ferghane Azihari's latest essay offers a critique of Islam, which he portrays as inherently hostile to modernity, freedom, and progress. Despite its publishing success, Vincent Tournier has noted a silence or reluctance in the media to discuss these ideas.
It is time to break with these legal ambiguities that undermine the social contract. The restoration of the Republic requires a justice system that names terrorism without euphemism, a massive revaluation of the teaching profession, and a secularism that yields nothing to fanaticism. Samuel Paty did not die so that his indirect murderers could benefit from reduced sentences in the name of an ill-informed youth or insufficiently proven intent. Let us protect the public education system, or accept its decline and the end of republican meritocracy. The time for leniency is over.
The "list of perpetrators of genocide" published by historian Julien Théry primarily stigmatizes Jewish figures simply because they defend Israel's right to exist. An opinion piece by Xavier-Laurent Salvador and Patrick Henriet calls for combating antisemitism in all its forms.
The recent publication of a report on academic freedom has obviously generated immense interest from the Observatory of University Ethics, especially since our Observatory is mentioned extensively in it, one of whose missions is precisely to denounce the multiple attacks on academic freedom and which has published several editorials and articles on this subject on its website.
The show "Murmures dans la cité" (Whispers in the City) is being criticized for its funding and its choice of religious figures, deemed incompatible with secularism by a group of heritage professionals. Patrick Henriet explains that the chosen saints played a major role in the Bourbonnais region: their presence is part of a historical, not an ideological, approach.
David Lappartient and Amélie Oudéa-Castéra supported the decision to ban athlete Sounkamba Sylla from wearing a veil at the Olympic Games, in accordance with the principles of secularism and neutrality, despite criticism from Amnesty International, insisting on the universality of human rights and republican equality.
Interview with Xavier-Laurent Salvador: In about ten years, wokeism, intersectionality, decolonialism, racialism and all their combinations have entered public life. What are we talking about? What are their roots?
Secularism? A difficult term to understand. So we asked Catherine Kintzler to enlighten us on the notion of secularism. Catherine Kintzler is a French philosopher, specialist in aesthetics and secularism. Agrégée in philosophy, doctor of state
Sandrine Rousseau's sallies regularly provoke disbelief, consternation or hilarity, to the point that we were delighted to see the insipid Yannick Jadot promoted to embody "government" ecology - that is to say, powerless. But we should take seriously the power of the so-called "woke" movement in the environmental movement: countering these delusional speeches requires, above all, understanding how we got here.