The show "The Best Regional Cuisine" drew the magazine's ire for its stale praise of tradition. However, Télérama is not stingy with praise when it comes to distant traditions.
An article in Le Monde reverses the roles by portraying so-called progressive academics as victims while imposing their ideological vision on campuses. Through several examples (Grenoble, Lyon II, student blockades, etc.), Jacques Robert denounces institutional complacency in the face of ideologies and the growing disregard for academic freedom.
People who so readily accept the metaphor of verbal violence are people who are quick to equate the murderer with the nuisance. In a world without violence, we have to put people in prison! We might as well put the people who bother us...
The colonialists would artificially reduce the size of Africa, while we are faced with well-known map projection effects.
When activists highlight their ignorance of basic geographical concepts, Jacques Robert is there to push their arguments to the point of absurdity...
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.
Jacques Robert denounces the drift of certain academic institutions such as the Collège de France, which agrees to submit to leonine clauses by signing a contract with a multinational company: academic freedom is thus undermined, as is the inalienable right to criticism.
French public universities, which enroll more than 70% of higher education students, fulfill an essential mission with far fewer resources than the private sector, while relying heavily on state funding. Yet, they suffer from a disconnect between research and teaching, low professionalization, and a lack of institutional recognition, undermining their central role in educating young people and upholding the promise of republican equality.
In his book "Wokism Doesn't Exist," Alain Policar defends a woke ideology that, under the guise of fighting discrimination, seeks the deconstruction of Western civilization. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.
The AFS Congress poster reveals a militant utopianism in a section of contemporary sociology. Vincent Tournier denounces the use of social sciences as an ideological tool in the service of wokeism.
A profound reversal of values and benchmarks is currently affecting the intellectual, educational, and social spheres. Identity ideologies are distorting historical struggles for equality, emptying them of their meaning. It is urgent to reestablish critical thinking, armed with knowledge and rigor, to stand up against this charade that is blurring the transmission of reality.