[we are reproducing here the text of the response that we published to Julien Bayou's text in l'Express] Dear Julien Bayou We, ordinary users of the French language, after reading your interview in l'Express, would like to provide some clarifications
The veil at school is a social issue that has been stirring up France for over 30 years. We can try to take advantage of this situation as some directors are doing today. It is a niche that
[by Charles Coutel, this text takes up and updates a version published in L'enseignement philosophique, 56th year, no. 4.] Absolutely separated from the political establishment of society, a priest is nothing more than a man. Condorcet (1792) The problem of the separation of Churches and
[by Samuel Mayol] During the summer universities of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure (finally!) put the Socialists back on the track of Republican values. If some Socialist leaders have had, in the past, reasons to worry us, Oliver Faure
[by Charles Coutel] Many words are confused today because they are overused: culture, civilization, minority, majority and law. Each of these terms deserves to be redefined. Reading Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville could well help us in
[by Albert Doja] At the request of the author, we are reproducing here the article originally published on the website The Conversation It is difficult to look away: in France as elsewhere, Islam and Muslims, their beliefs and their practices, have become
[by Charles Coutel] How can we express our debt to the Enlightenment without falling into anachronism that caricatures or hagiography that freezes? How can we admire them without venerating them? How can we translate them for our time without betraying them? So many questions that
The collective is united to fight against the promotion of decolonialism, sexism and racism by new ideologies; and to defend the promotion of equality and the transmission of knowledge linked to language, school and
Mr. Julien Aubert. Mr. Minister of National Education, last week, the Observatory of Decolonialism and Identity Ideologies, which brings together around a hundred French academics, submitted to you an alarming report that reveals the extent of the penetration of decolonial ideas and
[by Charles Coutel] Despite the interruptions due to the health crisis, our work has attempted to show, particularly within the Observatory of Decolonialism, the emancipatory role of universalism. This universalism has become for us, along the way, not only a