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The list of shame

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.

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Patrick Henriet

Figures of the past, quarrels of the present

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.

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Secularism: understanding its origins and meaning

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

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Common Places (Collective)

Political ecology versus environmentalism

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.

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Common Places (Collective)

Mapping anti-Enlightenment movements

This mapping attempts to organize in a coherent manner the major ideological currents which oppose modernity on its two principles, autonomy (a common world subject to criticism) and sovereignty (a democratic society).

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