What can Polybius teach us about the current political crisis?
Polybius saw the history of regimes as a moral cycle: democracy degenerates into ochlocracy when virtue disappears. Today, the loss of elite training and the decline of universities recall this mechanism: without education, freedom collapses and the crowd rules in place of reason.
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.