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Editorials constitute the institutional voice of the Observatory. They articulate our positions, synthesize our analyses, and situate contemporary intellectual issues.
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Jacques-Robert
Professor Emeritus of Cancerology, University of Bordeaux
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Le Monde accuses Donald Trump of being a warmonger in Iran. For Jacques Robert, the massacre of the population by its own leaders and the constant risk of nuclear war they create amply justify the American intervention. For once, Trump has made a decision favorable to peace and justice.
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador
Linguist, President of LAIC
Controlling social media: the latest fad of the self-righteous transformed into patronizing ladies.
The clamor of social media, far from threatening democracy, is its vibrant and popular expression. Trying to silence it reveals above all an elitist fear of the voice of the people.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
Linguist, President of LAIC
Defending video games is a philosophical imperative in the face of a perverse state.
A state that presents itself as a protector while treating parents as incapable minors, and children as subjects to be removed from reality, builds a society where no one is accountable for transmission.
Pierre Vermeren
Pierre Vermeren, a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and a history professor, is a specialist in the Maghreb and the Arab-Berber worlds.
If wokism were a movie, it would be "Battle After Battle"
Is this the price of our past revolutionary glory, perpetuated by the memory of the "French 75"? Is it the excess of "wokism," which has ended up normalizing this mix of feminism and racialism blended into antifascism? Is it our national anti-American passion reincarnated as anti-Trumpism, inevitably white supremacist and Nazi? Is it a cheap anti-Catholicism, reminding us that every institution is by nature coercive and must be fought? Is it simply our inexhaustible reservoir of guilt that compels us to validate all the actions of the supposedly oppressed, even when they shoot at us?
Vincent Tournier
Lecturer in political science at the IEP of Grenoble.
When Télérama mocks traditions… but not all of them
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.
Jacques-Robert
Professor Emeritus of Cancerology, University of Bordeaux
Victim inversion: who is threatening whom?
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.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
Linguist, President of LAIC
Cancel culture is an ideology of death
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...