Le Monde accuses Donald Trump of being a warmonger in Iran. For Jacques Robert, the massacre of the population by its own leaders and the constant risk of nuclear war they create amply justify the American intervention. For once, Trump has made a decision favorable to peace and justice.
The clamor of social media, far from threatening democracy, is its vibrant and popular expression. Trying to silence it reveals above all an elitist fear of the voice of the people.
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.
Is this the price of our past revolutionary glory, perpetuated by the memory of the "French 75"? Is it the excess of "wokism," which has ended up normalizing this mix of feminism and racialism blended into antifascism? Is it our national anti-American passion reincarnated as anti-Trumpism, inevitably white supremacist and Nazi? Is it a cheap anti-Catholicism, reminding us that every institution is by nature coercive and must be fought? Is it simply our inexhaustible reservoir of guilt that compels us to validate all the actions of the supposedly oppressed, even when they shoot at us?
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.
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.