In the section: "Secularism"

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Observers Collective

The review of sentences in the Paty trial

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.

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Observers Collective March 3, 2026
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Collective

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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Collective 29th November 2025
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Jacques-Robert

Did you say academic freedom? Regarding a hemanoptic report commissioned by France Universités

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.

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Jacques-Robert 6th November 2025
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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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Patrick Henriet 25st July 2025
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Collective

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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Collective 8th November 2023
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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) 1th August 2023
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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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Common Places (Collective) 15th June 2023