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After the big night, the early mornings that disappoint
Review of Nellie Bowles' book Morning after the Revolution, Penguin Random House, 2024 by Jacques Robert.
Jacques-Robert
August 12, 2024
anti-Semitism
Interview with Xavier-Laurent Salvador: “Decolonialism: what are we talking about?”
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?
Heretics Podcast
December 3, 2023
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“The New Inquisitors” or lived wokeness
A review of Nora Bussigny's infiltration reporting among the wokes.
Mikhail Kostylev
October 15th 2023
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“Sexual social peace is bought at the price of silence…” — The Silence of the Lambs
I worked in Seine-Saint-Denis for more than six years. First in a private association that dealt with helping minors in difficulty, then in a public sector that dealt with minors already in care.
All these testimonies are real, redundant and very familiar to many social actors.
Common Places (Collective)
May 3, 2023
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In the suburbs, elementary Islamism
Interview conducted with a sympathizer in June 2015, initially published in November 2015 in the brochure “n°21 Islamisms, Islamogauchisme, Islamophobie. Première partie: L’islam à l’offensive, de la prédication à la guerre”, then posted online on the Lieux Communs website in September 2016.
Common Places (Collective)
April 28, 2023
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Inclusive music criticism
On March 4, the Paris Chamber Orchestra (OCP) gave a concert at the Cité de la Musique on the following theme: "Folklore Inspirations." This title is surprising from an institution that is particularly committed to promoting all cultures on an equal footing, to breaking with old hierarchical patterns. The title of this concert can indeed be shocking in that it contains a contemptuous point of view towards local cultures that have been dominated for too long and no longer have to be, for too long relegated to the rank of "folklore" like certain minority languages are reduced to the rank of "dialects." We have not yet sufficiently brought down supposedly learned - Western - music from its pedestal: how could a Beethoven symphony be superior to a dance played by a fiddler from a village in the Carpathians? Also, "Expressions of Diversity" would have been a more acceptable title.
Andrei J.
March 20, 2023
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Godot Cancelled: Only Men Auditioned
A production of Waiting for Godot in the Netherlands took a Beckettian turn when the theatre cancelled performances because the Irish director had only auditioned men for the all-male cast. Here is a translation of the article originally published in IrishTime Magazine reporting the incident.
Collective
February 5st, 2023
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Letter written by Christian Godin to an elected environmentalist following the prevention of Caroline Eliacheff's conference at Cité-Philo in Lille
Our colleague Christian Godin authorizes us to make public the letter he sent to an elected environmentalist – and to which he received no response – following the prevention of Caroline Eliacheff's conference at the Cité-Philo festival in Lille, in November 2022
Collective
19th January 2023
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France-Inter awakens civic awareness with a woke mosquito
Whether it comes from France-Inter, Sciences-Po, Le Monde or Quebec, this gibberish of incoherent and sensationalist incantations, disguised as progressivism, is an attack on common sense. However, it confirms a glaring truth: the situation is serious. It encourages us to refuse submission to egalitarian-diversity ukases in order to have this "Courage of civilizational dissidence" to which Bérénice Levet calls us. @franceinter #naufrage
Daniele Cosson-Schere
13th January 2023
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Shame on those who want to silence those who do not think like them: on the subject of the hullabaloo of which Nathalie Heinich was the victim
Nathalie Heinich's account of the evening of November 29 does not fail to raise many questions about the behavior of those who physically oppose the holding of conferences to the point of tipping over into
Collective
December 1, 2022