This section brings together all the analyses classified under this theme.
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.
An interview by Pierre-Henri Tavoillot with the philosopher Manuel Maria Carrilho who analyzes wokism as an ideology stemming from the "paradigm of the unlimited", based on a boundless conception of identity and language, and marked by a censorial fanaticism deeply rooted in Western institutions.
The "month of equality" organised by the University of Grenoble-Alpes replaces academic debate with ideological awareness-raising actions that take the place of intellectual reflection.
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.
Ethnomarketing, conceived as a "fine" adaptation of marketing to cultural affiliations, now functions as a powerful factor of communitarianism by reifying identities and organizing the market into stabilized ethnic or religious "islands".
A state that presents itself as a protector while treating parents as incapable minors, and children as subjects to be removed from reality, builds a society where no one is accountable for transmission.
"For a Reform of Pedagogical Thinking" by Stéphane Louryan is a lucid critique of early specialization and the fragmentation of knowledge in higher education. A review by Jacques Robert.
Is the cancellation of a conference desirable? Two positions argued by two members of the Observatory.
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 introduction of "menstrual leave for all" in some French universities, denying the physiological reality of menstruation, blurs the lines between equality and ideology. An article by Laura Stevens, followed by a commentary by Jacques Robert.