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Patrick Henriet

The show "Murmures dans la cité" 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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Jacques-Robert

Professor Emeritus of Cancerology, University of Bordeaux
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.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Linguist, President of LAIC
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.

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Emmanuelle Henin

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.

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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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Museums under influence: when ideology erases art

In "Bad Genre at the Museum," Didier Rykner denounces the growing intrusion of woke and decolonial ideologies into museums, accused of falsifying history, censoring works, and sacrificing art to militant causes. Through a series of concrete examples, he criticizes the trivialization of vandalism, racial obsession, cancel culture, and the ideological rewriting of works—all serious attacks on memory, universalism, and the mission of cultural institutions.

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The Submissions of a Sect

The journalists who wrote "La Meute" denounced LFI's ideological shift toward indigenism and anti-Semitism, a cult of leadership, and hypocrisy regarding issues of sexual violence. A strategy of political conquest based on social division and militant radicalism. A report by Ivan Burel.

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As a feminist, I was “cancelled”

Marie-Jo Bonnet denounces the censorship she faces within feminist and LGBT activist circles for expressing critical positions on marriage, medically assisted procreation for lesbians, and gender transition, which she considers to be normative responses to social and identity-based malaise. The new progressive norms are becoming instruments of exclusion, censorship, and the falsification of history, under the guise of defending minorities.

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Should the CNRS be dismantled?

Jacques Robert denounces the ideological instrumentalization of science and protests against those who want to remove the human and social sciences (HSS) from the CNRS. Just as much as the so-called "hard" sciences, the HSS make a major contribution to knowledge of the world.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The meaning of our fight

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.

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Observers Collective

Back to the past: when PUFs restore prior censorship

The book "Facing Woke Obscurantism," commissioned by the Presses Universitaires de France from three researchers and 22 co-authors, was suddenly canceled a month before its publication, officially due to a context deemed unfavorable. This decision, perceived as a form of ideological censorship, sparked numerous reactions, media support for the authors, and interest from other publishers willing to publish the book.

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Pierre Vermeren

Jean-Michel Aphatie and Algeria, the story of a shipwreck

At a time when the French-language writer Boualem Sansal was dying in the jails of Algiers, the star political journalist of RTL declared on air on February 25, 2025 that France "made hundreds of Oradour-sur-Glane" in Algeria, and "that the Nazis behaved as we did in Algeria."

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Jacques-Robert

Caught between wokeism and Trumpism

Jacques Robert warns against the excesses of wokeism and Trumpism, two extremes threatening science, and calls for vigilance against all forms of ideologization of knowledge.

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Pierre Vermeren

Gender? It doesn't exist

In the world before, literature was the way to know the lives of others, to imagine one's own, and to test one's virtues, one's body, one's fantasies, one's hopes and one's ambitions. The teachers of morality and virtue were neither civil servants nor paid activists, but thinkers and artists grappling with the human question. This library is still available. Mr. Minister Delegate, hold on!

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Nathalie Heinich

Children, new victims of woke delusions

There is no stopping progress in the invention of new woke causes, intended to wake up the troops who are a little too asleep again. Because it's true, by force of stuffing ourselves with "gender" (about half of the themes listed in the 250 or so items of our 2023 Report), "racialization", "Islamophobia", "homophobia", "transphobia", "fatphobia" and all the phobias imaginable (except that of mice and reptiles, the only ones that I unfortunately have to confess), we end up finding the soap opera a little repetitive... Thus the dreary flock of "sheep of thought" periodically struggles to renew the livestock of the unfortunate victims of Domination (curse your name too pronounced!). And the latest discovery to date is children. Dare you?

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Florence Bergeaud-Blackler

Deciphering censorship disguised as scientific rigor – a look back at the cancellation of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's conference in Lille

Bergeaud-Blackler responds to the arguments put forward by Karim Souanef and Julien Talpin (Mediapart), who claim that the cancellation of his lecture at the University of Lille was based on scientific and ethical reasons, not political ones. They present the case from a political angle while claiming the opposite, omitting certain elements and biasing their analysis.

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Jacques-Robert

The child is a wolf to man

It is from Scotland that we receive news that a child is suffering from "species dysphoria" and identifies with a wolf. Oncologist Jacques Robert expands on this theme.

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Pauline Arrighi

Studies, a new Olympic discipline

There was the first medalist for the refugee team, Cameroonian boxer Cindy Ngamba; the selfie of the South and North Korean table tennis players, united on the podium; and the Australian Rachel Gunn, who distinguished herself with a break dance performance that earned her no points but rather a flood of jeers. It is very likely that she consciously provoked this fiasco to put herself forward in the many media outlets that reported on it.

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Nathalie Heinich

To end the nonsense about academic freedom

There is a lot of talk these days about "academic freedom", but it is mostly to say stupid things, which a little common sense and knowledge of the issue should be enough to dispel.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Job profiles in inclusive writing: the administration backtracks

The period of Le Mars sees a proliferation of job advertisements for recruitment in higher education establishments of which the INSPE are now part in complete autonomy. The word "autonomy" is undoubtedly inappropriate when talking about the civil service, as some believe themselves to be freed by the performative magic of the word from any accountability to the public that finances them. Through our unprecedented mobilization, we have managed to force the administration to back down!

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Francois Rastier

The indefinable genre

Gender, the cultural construction of biological sex, has become central to social and political studies, significantly influencing the ideology of late capitalism.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The 3 attacks on the democratic spirit in the management of companies and administrations conveyed by wokism

Woke ideology has long since penetrated the daily life of the business world and public administration. There are major and unavoidable phenomena that everyone thinks about. And there are these little everyday things, against which we don't know what to do, and which nibble away at our space of freedom every day. What are some examples? Where does it come from? What can we do?

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Michel Messu

The conceptual imposture of gender

The work proposed by Pauline Arrighi remains one of the most relevant and useful in these times of great ideological confusion. The approach should even be commended.

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Jacques-Robert

Read “Little Mysticism of Gender” by François Rastier

The book published by François Rastier at Intervalles seems "small", but it is of an incomparable density both in the number of points addressed and in the breadth of the author's culture, which takes us into the labyrinths of the occult to arrive at state propaganda in favor of transgenderism.

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Francois Rastier

"Wonderful beings, angels who have no sex but have a gender"

While the scientific foundations of the notion of gender are being questioned, the author has chosen to shift his point of view towards the esoteric and astrological sources of gender. Petite mystique du genre, by François Rastier, was published on September 15, 2023 by Intervalles.

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Carlos Henriques-Pereira

An Apocalypse of Nihilism – a critical look at a revealing exhibition at the BnF

The National Library of France is organizing a major exhibition on the Apocalypse, exploring its original meaning as "revelation" rather than the end of the world. The event, structured in three parts, offers an immersion into John's text, an analysis of the Apocalypse in art, and a contemporary reflection on the post-catastrophe, sparking controversy over an underlying ideology.

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Claudio Rubiliani

Who's Woke 2025 – Our Top 10

A satirical text by Claudio Rubiliani that provocatively ranks ten political figures and institutions, denouncing their hypocrisy and their offbeat commitment in the name of progressivism.

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Vincent Tournier

Scholar's bubbles

A comic strip supported by the Ministry of Higher Education explains how to identify a reliable scientific study. However, the portrayal of the charlatan as an old white scientist sparks debate about stereotypes and the message conveyed. Finally, the comic strip raises a broader question: why does science education seem to be neglected in favor of other educational priorities?

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Jacques-Robert

Caught between wokeism and Trumpism

Jacques Robert warns against the excesses of wokeism and Trumpism, two extremes threatening science, and calls for vigilance against all forms of ideologization of knowledge.

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Florent Poupart

The influence of identity ideologies on “psy” practices

Contemporary identity ideologies profoundly influence psychological practices by imposing a hypermoralization of social life, transforming the therapeutic relationship into a space of ideological validation rather than neutral analysis. Psychologist Florent Poupart warns us against this development, which is accompanied by a growing distrust of psychic life in its unconscious dimension, in favor of an ideal of transparency and moral purity.

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Leonardo Orlando

Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the Challenges of a Politicized Discipline

“We are losing science,” warns Weiss, who sees this politicization as an existential threat. “When remains are buried or destroyed, when museums censor their exhibits, there is nothing left to study. Unlike other disciplines, once anthropological data is lost, it cannot be recreated.”

Elizabeth Weiss nevertheless remains attached to the idea of ​​an anthropology anchored in science and the exploration of the past. But her testimony, opposing scientific rigor to identity pretensions, suggests an uncertain future for a discipline in search of meaning.

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Mireille Quivy

Review: Susan Neiman, The Left Is Not #Woke

To quote Susan Neiman: "On the other hand, woke thinking that advocates a tribal vision of culture is not far from that of the Nazis who insisted that German music be played exclusively by Aryans, nor from that of Samuel Huntington defending what he called "Western culture" against the threats of destruction coming from other civilizations. To censor cultural appropriation is to sabotage the power of culture."

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Reading note: “Do we still want to live together?” by Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

After a damning diagnosis of the intellectual disaster that Wokism represents in the West, Tavoillot devotes his book to avenues of reconstruction. He identifies universal practices that he calls "seven pillars of conviviality": shared meals, couple relationships, intergenerational transmission, religious practices, among others. These pillars, deeply rooted in human experience, are considered as levers to restore an authentic social bond.

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Nathalie Heinich

Social sciences and wokeness: why France is a special case

The phenomenon known as "woke" or "wokism" is international: initially developed on North American campuses towards the end of the 2010s and having quickly reached the worlds of culture, politics and even business, it has not taken long to cross the Atlantic to invest in many European countries. Its success is largely due to the fact that it defends causes associated, rightly, with progress and justice, but - and this is where it poses a problem - by making them systematic or even unique grids for perceiving the world.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

We are the lawyers of the dead

The New York Times recently devoted an article to the subject of the defacement of the statue of Victor Hugo by Ousmane Sow in Besançon, which led to reprehensible atrocities by radicalized identitarians who were very ill-advised to attack a statue of Victor Hugo. This subject led me to mention the "opportunistic revisionism of the Besançon city hall".

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Cyrille Godonou

The mechanisms underlying gender disparities in mathematics: preferences, performance, discrimination or stereotypes?

Several studies show that parents perceive girls as less gifted in mathematics, less interested in this discipline, and therefore more compelled to work to succeed. Perhaps more importantly, these perceptions persist even when girls obtain identical or even higher grades than boys! Jussim and Eccles surveyed a hundred mathematics teachers about the competence and effort made in this discipline by each of the students in their 6th grade class (ages 11-12).

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Nathalie Heinich

A New Denial: Islamo-Leftism versus Islamofascism

There is no point in trying to convince fanatics, emblems of the worst that religions can produce. No: those who need convincing are those of our compatriots who have not yet understood what war is being waged against the Republic and democracy – a war whose daily bread is social networks. And to better fight it, we need to name it: this war is the one waged by Islamofascism. This is how Daniel Cohn-Bendit had the intelligence and courage to describe the perpetrators of the attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015. And it was yet another Islamofascist who just tried to slit Salman Rushdie's throat.

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Francois Rastier

Decolonial Tyrannies

Since independence, the colonial past has often been denounced by the regimes in power; but after three generations, the liberated peoples have the right to demand accountability from them, or at least to no longer be satisfied with invoking the past: this was the meaning of the remarkable essay by Hélé Béji, Nous, décolonisés (Arléa, 2008).

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Nathalie Heinich

The Hijabeuses, a decisive moment

Background. Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter requires neutrality during sports competitions so that they are protected from political or religious divisions. For the same reason, the French Football Federation prohibits "any sign or outfit that ostentatiously displays political, philosophical, religious or union affiliation". However, in November, a group of self-proclaimed "hijab women" footballers, formed two years ago as a "Muslim women's football union", brought an action before the Council of State to have this article repealed. The request was rejected but it continues to be examined on the merits. 

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Woke-Machine

Leaflet #16 Pregnancy for everyone!

Pregnancy for all!
Pregnancy for all is a fundamental right that allows the personal and family development of each human being.

Enabling everyone to have the opportunity to have a child is a matter of equality and social justice.

Every human should have the right to decide about their reproductive life, without being judged or discriminated against.

Promoting pregnancy for all means defending human rights and building a more inclusive society that respects diversity.

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Woke-Machine

Tract #15 Sodomy: Try it, you'll love it.

Sodomy: try it, you'll love it.

Sodomy has been a joy to humans since they began.

And yet, it remains negatively connoted and a subject of insults.

Isn't it time to correct a culture that makes it invisible and a cinema that promotes the missionary position when the anus should be considered a "universal vagina" (Andrea Long Chu)!

Let's demand scenes of happy sodomy in contemporary cinema and, thanks to AI, the correction of classic scenes, relics of heteronormativity and binarity from a bygone era!

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Woke-Machine

Tract #14 Brussels-Central Park, NY via an underground tunnel?

Brussels-Central Park, NY via an underground?

Who hasn't heard of the satanic orgies that supposedly took place in the basement of a pizzeria in Central Park, New York?

Who hasn't heard about the alleged links between Bill Gates and the Illuminati?

Now, Bill Gates was seen entering a Brussels sewer.

Could there be a secret underground passage used by the Belgian Illuminati to participate in New York orgies? A secret underground passage that the mainstream media is hiding from us.

We ask the question. Let's keep our eyes open!

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Leaflet #13 For an inclusive secularism

The issue of religious symbols has generated a lot of discussion and highlighted the enemies of religious freedom.

We Pastafarians have intimately experienced that our deep faith increases kindness, empathy, creativity, compassion and altruism in our interactions with the public.

Driving our commitment to serving others, it gives us the strength and motivation to persevere through difficult times and to always keep in mind the well-being of those we serve.

Showing our faith, including at work, is showing our devotion and proclaiming respect for differences in an inclusive secularism.

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Nathalie Heinich

Ridicule does not kill the Parisian municipality

Woke neo-feminism does not spare the publications of the City of Paris, as evidenced by the latest Petit Journal of the 12th arrondissement. Regarding the development project for Place Félix Éboué, intended to "redevelop the square for the benefit of pedestrians", we read: "After several months of consultations with Parisians, local residents, shopkeepers, but also all users, Place Félix Éboué will radically transform (sic) for everyone."

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Conference interrupted in Assas: the objective press finally!

A study day on the legal issue was fortunately interrupted by the University users while contested professors were speaking to defend the transphobic idea that gender identity should be registered in the civil registry. Students, visibly aware of the legitimate problems of inclusive society, then simply armed with their courage and a few innocent projectiles - the proof: they are sold in the DIY or paint section of stores - organized a happening in order to disrupt the expected course of hate speech professed by these old-fashioned intellectuals who can't be stopped by shame. One of the speakers, realizing his mistake, made amends and his forgiveness was signified to him by the redemptive mark of colored baptismal water. On the other hand, a reactionary activist who was denounced by her tailor, aggressive and who was there to support the transphobic activists, was roundly neutralized by the youth. No one was injured that day, which is fortunate because the youth probably narrowly escaped perishing under the repeated blows of the hetero-patriarchal battering ram.

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