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Vincent Tournier
Lecturer in political science at the IEP of Grenoble.
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.
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador
Linguist, President of LAIC
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
The book "Face à l'obscurantisme woke," 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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Vincent Tournier and Jacques Robert
Vincent Tournier is a lecturer in political science at the IEP of Grenoble. Jacques Robert is Professor Emeritus of Cancerology, University of Bordeaux
Stand up for Science: A generous mobilization in favor of threatened American researchers… that we had not seen at work in favor of those who were ostracized in the past for crimes of opinion. Ideological prejudices and political correctness harm science! Beware of militant actions that undermine scientific rigor…
To the There’s nothing quite like a
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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Universities under control
The collective work Critique de la raison universitaire, edited by Arnaud Bernadet, explores how certain identity-based, managerial, and activist ideologies undermine the foundations of science, reason, and academic freedom within Western universities, particularly in Canada and France. Through contributions from various academics, the book denounces the erosion of intellectual pluralism caused by censorship, EDI policies, the indigenization of knowledge, and the transformation of law into an instrument of activism, calling for a rigorous defense of academic autonomy as a requirement of truth.
Marc Chevrier
April 24, 2025
“Why Intellectuals Are Wrong” by Samuel Fitoussi – the good leaves
The best parts of Samuel Fitoussi's latest work, which highlights the ideological excesses and support given by many 20th-century intellectuals to totalitarian regimes, showing that culture and intelligence do not protect against error, but can sometimes lead to it with zeal.
Observers Collective
April 22, 2025
When Wokism bites its tail
The example of a trans actress whose career collapsed after the discovery of comments deemed racist and Islamophobic reveals the contradictions of wokeism. Claudio Rubiliani exposes intersectionality, an incoherent and self-destructive ideology, ridiculed by its own excesses.
Claudio Rubiliani
April 16, 2025
When intimidation replaces debate: support for Fabrice Balanche
Fabrice Balanche, a researcher at Lyon 2 University, was prevented from giving a lecture by masked activists claiming to be pro-Palestinian. The University Ethics Observatory responded to this climate of intimidation in a statement demanding sanctions and strong commitment from university and government authorities.
Observers Collective
April 10, 2025
When medicine forgets not to harm – “The Hippocratic Sermon” by Caroline Éliacheff and Céline Masson
In "The Hippocratic Sermon," Caroline Éliacheff and Céline Masson denounce the ideological excesses of transaffirmative medicine, particularly among minors, practices that run counter to traditional medical ethics and are sources of serious physical and psychological harm. Drawing on concrete cases, historical analyses, and the Cass report, they call for rigorous remedicalization based on psychology, clinical prudence, and child protection. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.
Emmanuelle Henin
April 9, 2025
The Sum of All Wokeisms: Cyborg Dogs and Queer Antispeciesism
It will explore cyborg dogs becoming queer and canine intimacies at the heart of the anti-colonial struggle. Mikhail Kostylev analyzes a highly acclaimed American article in which ideology leads to the manipulation of language and the denial of reality.
Mikhail Kostylev
March 28, 2025
Decolonial Joy
The exhibition "Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art" at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Stephanie Sparling Williams, offers a radical rereading of American art history by inverting power relations: works by non-white and women artists are foregrounded, while those by white artists are physically demeaned to force a reckoning with historical inequalities. This approach, hailed by some as a necessary deconstruction of the dominant narrative, is criticized by others as a form of radical activism that transforms the museum experience into an ideological display.
Emmanuelle Henin
March 23, 2025
“The Insurrection of Particularities”: Chantal Delsol Faces the Decline of the Universal – a Review by Emmanuelle Hénin
In "Insurrection of Particularities," Chantal Delsol analyzes the decline of the universal in favor of a wokeness marked by relativism, the dictatorship of identities, and the questioning of rationality, which substitutes emotion and ideology for debate and science. She shows how this evolution leads to a democracy dominated by minorities, an excessive egalitarianism deconstructing all hierarchy, and a performative thought where truth is replaced by militant narratives imposed through intimidation. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.
Emmanuelle Henin
March 19, 2025
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No to misopedic adultism!
This requires, since the Nation's budget is under discussion, to create a specific envelope for the fight against adultism, intended to promote paid internships led by the children themselves, in order to better ensure that the specific oppression they suffer is understood. These will aim to awaken parents and, beyond that, all adults, to the toxic relationship that pushed them to have children without asking their opinion.
Jean Ferrette
October 31th 2024
The editorials
Guilty, necessarily guilty!
Today, it is a twenty-year-old Sciences Po student, Pablo Ladam, who tells us about the madness that has taken hold of his school in its fight against "sexist and sexual violence". He does so in a high-quality text, Terreur violette, which is absolutely essential reading and which we all hope to see published soon.
Jacques-Robert
October 23th 2024
Islamo-leftism
A CNRS laboratory confuses activism and research objects
The university, supposed to be a place of neutrality and scientific rigor, is drifting towards a worrying politicization, as evidenced by the recent motion of the CEPED (CNRS), which adopts a militant pro-Palestinian position. This position compromises the credibility of research and instrumentalizes the social sciences for ideological purposes. The academic institution must preserve its independence and avoid becoming a vector of political agenda.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
October 10th 2024
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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.
Jacques-Robert
September 29, 2024
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The refusal of debate, the fatal weapon of academic-activism
On September 17, the university popularization site TheConversation published an article by our colleague Albin Wagener (“professor of discourse analysis and communication” at the Catholic Institute of Lille) entitled “Moral panics: the fatal weapon of the extreme right”. The illustration chosen by the editorial staff is as eloquent as the title: an agit-prop poster declaring “The extreme right speaks to you every day, 24/24”, with the logos of C8 and Europe 1. Let’s add: on TheConversation, it is the extreme left that speaks to us every day, but with an additional advantage: it is not through the voice of journalists but under the cover of academic expertise. Double punishment.
Nathalie Heinich
September 17, 2024
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When Sciences Po' mixes gender, literature and politics...
Mrs. Réjane Sénac holds a doctorate from the IEP in Paris in political science, specializing in "political thought". She holds a Master 2 in law and a Master
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
September 2, 2024
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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.
Pauline Arrighi
August 19, 2024
The editorials
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.
Nathalie Heinich
August 1, 2024
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Political ecology versus environmentalism
Sandrine Rousseau's sallies regularly provoke disbelief, consternation or hilarity, to the point that we were delighted to see the insipid Yannick Jadot promoted to embody "government" ecology - that is to say, powerless. But we should take seriously the power of the so-called "woke" movement in the environmental movement: countering these delusional speeches requires, above all, understanding how we got here.
Common Places (Collective)
August 1, 2023
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Interview with Sonya Zadig: “The individual in Islam and the West”
Heretics is a political podcast that combines interviews and debates. This summer we will publish the shows from the first season here. Is it possible, today, to leave
Heretics Podcast
July 16, 2023
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Censorship in US School Libraries: What Now for the Bible?
The American and international media have recently echoed a barely conceivable piece of news: the Davis County School District (95 schools for 72000 students, very close to Salt Lake City, Utah) had just announced its decision to ban lower school levels (5-13 years old) from accessing the venerable King James Bible (1611), the very one on which George Washington took the oath on April 30, 1789.
Marc Fryd
June 29, 2023
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Critical Race Theory, Reading Note for Mr. Pap NDiaye and Other Zealots of the New Racism
“Identify and challenge the ways in which mathematics is used to defend capitalist, imperialist, and racist views. Expose students to examples of people who have used mathematics as a means of resistance. Provide learning opportunities that use mathematics as a means of resistance.”…. Shall we continue?
Collective
June 20, 2023
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Mapping anti-Enlightenment movements
This mapping attempts to organize in a coherent manner the major ideological currents which oppose modernity on its two principles, autonomy (a common world subject to criticism) and sovereignty (a democratic society).
Common Places (Collective)
June 15, 2023
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Segregation: Why a Minister Shouldn't Say That
Alexandre Portier, LR MP for the Rhône and member of the Higher Council of Programs, reacts to the use of the term “school segregation” by the Minister of National Education.
Alexandre Portier
June 8, 2023
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Some thoughts on the philosophy of antiracism
It is to restore to this notion of "color blindness", of racial "color blindness", all its nobility and its humanist scope that I would like to tackle here.
Bruno Chaouat
June 8, 2023
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Freedom of conscience and religious freedom
Texts such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe recognise freedom of thought, conscience and religion as fundamental rights. However, over time there has been a semantic shift that has led to these rights being restricted or neglected.
Martine Cerf
June 5, 2023
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“The New Inquisitors” or lived wokeness
A review of Nora Bussigny's infiltration reporting among the wokes.
Mikhail Kostylev
October 15th 2023
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How ‘conversion therapy’ became an LGBT+ political weapon: investigation
When a law passed on a misunderstanding allows the censorship of opponents of transgender ideology and religions"
Mikhail Kostylev
September 25, 2023
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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.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
June 25, 2023
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Transactivist Violence and Timely Misgendering
When transactivism goes wrong, the press is silent.
Mikhail Kostylev
April 1, 2023
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Aspects of Republican Transactivism, from the Ministry of Education to the Council of State
In addition to interministerial associations and delegations, several ministries disseminate gender ideology and particularly transactivism, notably that of National Education. For example, the former National Institute of Pedagogical Research, which became the Canopé Network, recently invited schoolchildren to “deconstruct kinship”, while researching the meaning of the prefixes “hetero”, “homo”, “trans”, “cis”, “inter” and “bi” — proof that ancient languages have not said their last word. It offers teachers a webinar on “the fight against LGBTIphobia” where we suddenly learn that “secular heritage” is “potentially LGBTIphobic”.
Francois Rastier
January 13, 2023
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Faced with the specters of the irrational, we are always the advocates of the dead.
We are the advocates of the dead, not because we hear their voices, but because we refuse to subject knowledge to seductive illusions. Science cannot be a field of "exceptional" experiments; it is, above all, a space of intellectual demand.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
December 17, 2024
The editorials
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!
Pierre Vermeren
December 3, 2024
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Wokeism in the reading of C. Castoriadis
The analyses of what is now commonly called "wokism" could be divided into three groups: those that link it to "French Theory", those that derive it from the history of communism and those that detect a para-religious current in it. Salutary and, ultimately, complementary, these approaches focus solely on the ideological angle, which could lead one to believe that the fight against these invasive movements could be limited to this terrain. This is far from negligible but, in addition to opening the door to a return to the old ideological mummies called "right-wing", it ignores the conditions of the emergence of wokism, that is to say, the in-depth analyses of contemporary Western societies.
Dedicated to the latter, the work of Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) would perhaps, retrospectively, allow us to shed some light on these contemporary pseudo-subversions, then understood as signs of a "decay of the West" - to use his famous phrase - which is now extremely advanced. It is this that we must confront, otherwise we will wage a battle while ignoring the main lines of force that determine its outcome.
Common Places (Collective)
November 27, 2024
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Anti-Wokeism Manifesto
A specter haunts contemporary societies: that of wokism. In universities, administrations, public and professional spaces, an insidious ideology seeks to redefine cultural, social and political norms. It claims to be inclusive, equal and socially just, but in reality is part of a logic of division, censorship and ideological oppression. We, opponents of wokism, rise up to defend universal values, freedom of expression and democratic pluralism against this intellectual and political drift.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
November 19, 2024
Wokism
Is Wokeism in trouble?
The Grand Inquisitors of the inclusive-diverse sect know no borders: the proof! Note: The Bordeaux Rectorate has suspended for three
Daniele Cosson-Schere
September 27, 2024
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Wooden apologies
At Columbia, the president, Nemat Shafik, known as Minouche, had to call the police on campus to dislodge pro-Palestinian students from their camps and from university buildings where they had no business, Hamilton Hall in particular. About a hundred of them had been arrested: this somewhat disconcerted them, having been raised in the absence of contradiction and unable to accept being accused of harassing those they believe to be responsible for or approving of the war in the Middle East and who have only the "fault" of being Jewish.
Jacques-Robert
September 23, 2024
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Olympic universalism put to the test by communitarianism: the example of breakdancing
Certainly, Raygunn's athletic performance was poor, worthless. But invalidating her presence on the grounds that she is "white" is a racist, communal assumption that irrevocably ends the Olympic mirage.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
September 10, 2024
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"I suffer therefore I am"
Pascal Bruckner speaks of a process of heroization of the victim and of indefinite extension of the victim field where even "the privileged can play the damned".
Pascal Perrineau
September 9, 2024
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The “glass ceiling” in research: the mystery solved?
These explanations would benefit from having the echo they deserve. While we obviously find studies reporting recruitment or advancement bias among researchers (sometimes also in the opposite direction to that usually suspected), it seems that overall in France we can explain the disparities only by the choices made and scientific productivity, namely the fact of applying and publishing [(Mairesse & Pezzoni, 2015); (Bosquet, Combes, & Garcia-Panalosa, 2014)], a differential which itself is explained, at least in part, by family commitments. Overall, by looking closely at the data, it is clear that the mystery of the "glass ceiling" seems to have been elucidated.
Cyrille Godonou
March 4, 2022
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Protecting the children of the Republic's school against any ideological manipulation
It is time to protect the children of the school of the Republic from intersectional ideology, identity and racial manipulations and decolonial pedagogy, particularly within teacher training and in the university institution. It is now a question of alerting public opinion to the consequences of this pedagogical fanaticism not only in the human and social sciences at the university, but also on the need to protect the children of the school of the Republic against all those who would like to establish statistics on the race (sic) and sexuality of children from primary school, based on the frameworks of intersectionality and identity and decolonial drifts. The Masters training models are not spared from this ideological infiltration.
charles coutel
March 13, 2021
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Tract #12 Let's Apologize for Our White Privilege
Let us do penance for this disgusting whiteness that afflicts us.
Let's condemn our parents for making us born white.
Let us repent of this world that we, the privileged, have created. This world filled with nauseating white supremacy.
Let us deeply regret this white privilege and ask forgiveness from our racialized sisters and brothers.
Woke-Machine
March 26, 2025
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Tract #11 Let's Deconstruct Mathematics
Let's deconstruct mathematics
Mathematics is based on abstract principles that do not correspond to social realities. Worse, they make inequalities invisible.
1 racialized person + 1 white person, do they make 2 equal humans? Of course not!
Mathematical equality in no way reflects the inequalities and individual differences present in our society.
There is an urgent need to deconstruct mathematics, to question these fixed norms and to bring about a more critical reflection on power relations and existing discrimination.
Woke-Machine
March 19, 2025
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Tract #10 – Kevin.e feels like a woman today
Kevin.e feels like a woman today
In any case, it is essential to accept that a man feels like a woman and vice versa because the recognition of gender identity is crucial for everyone's well-being and mental health.
By denying feelings and experiences, by refusing their legitimacy, we contribute to stigmatization and social exclusion.
Accepting and respecting everyone's gender identity helps to build a fluid and more inclusive society.
Let everyone be authentic and feel free in their gender identity.
Woke-Machine
March 12, 2025
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Tract #9 – Pregnant at 80? It’s never too late to fully realize your potential
Pregnant at 80? It's never too late to fully realize your potential
Today, thanks to advances in medicine, there is no age or time limit to fulfilling one's dreams and fully realizing oneself.
Being pregnant at 80, giving yourself this gift, giving yourself a baby, is a personal and legitimate choice that can bring happiness and fulfillment to a woman.
Every individual has the inalienable right to lead his or her life in accordance with his or her personal aspirations and desires, free from the constraints of a rigid society and outdated conventions.
Woke-Machine
March 5, 2025
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For equal spelling
From now on, let no French statement be equal: a sentence must have as many masculine words as feminine mounts! Come on, let's jump. We will therefore take care not to make sentences that are exclusively masculine ("Ciao Pantin") or exclusively feminine ("Chattehaute Pantine"), but we will take care to alternate the two with caution and respect.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
January 13, 2023
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When theology returns to the university: what the “Meetings on ecological professions” at the IEP of Grenoble reveal
Are our students ready to give up such stays to bring their actions "in line" with their values? Are they ready to launch a call for a boycott of Erasmus? Will they advocate sober university exchanges, in the style of short circuits, like Grenoble-Chambéry but no further?
Vincent Tournier
November 23, 2022
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“Inclusive” theologian, or the Crusader
To expel God from the Bible is already absurd… but less so than the total nonchalance of the manner. Our theologian liquidates a fundamental dogma of his own religion, without explanation… but above all without the slightest inner shudder.
Mikhail Kostylev
October 14th 2022
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Chauvophobia!
Just yesterday, I was young and naive: I would mock woke excesses in endless articles, without suspecting that I too would soon be the victim of a terrible social injustice. One dark morning, in my mirror, I saw that age had come… and all my hair had gone.
Mikhail Kostylev
September 27, 2022
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Sandrine Rousseau's hunting rifles: the story of a hoax
It's the opening of the hunting season! And some game weighs more than others. On September 21, the first hearing of the trial of Sandrine Rousseau, prosecuted criminally by the National Federation of Hunters, will take place.
Mikhail Kostylev
September 16, 2022
Humor
Good single-sex and bad single-sex
The journalist: Your association organizes its meetings in a non-mixed manner, but demands that the toilets be non-gendered... Basically, what difference is there between the
Observers Collective
March 25, 2022
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“Feminist realism”
[by Mikhail Kostylev] There are few things I enjoy reading as much as good feminist prose. Politically, the movement often bungles –
Mikhail Kostylev
February 19, 2022
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The Midas of ideology
[by Mikhail Kostylev] "Wokism does not exist", insists Libération, , ... after having nevertheless hailed it as a "concept taken up by Black Live Matters" for
Mikhail Kostylev
February 11, 2022
Reading : Compte rendu
Wokeism or the Republic of Contradictions*
Presentation of the new book by Nadia Geertz, "Woke, the victim tyranny" published by Deville.
The identity trap
Bernabé's "The Identity Trap" critiques the left's obsession with identity politics as a distraction from socio-economic issues, warning against neoliberalism and the dangers of divisive wokeness.
“This morbid ideology that is transactivism…”
Christian Godin, philosopher, reacts to the latest article in Le Monde, the content of which is deliberately in favor of militant transactivism.
From the concept to the materiality of sex
Kathleen Stock analyzes the concept of sex and gender in biology and society, critiquing trans activism and defending a biological foundation while respecting transgender identity.
Wokeism: totalitarianism unmasked! 🔥My summary of Nathalie Heinich's book.
Summary of Nathalie Heinich's book, Is Wokeism Totalitarianism?
Death announced for the Belgian university
In "Autopsy of the University", Stéphane Louryan severely criticizes the evolution of Belgian and French universities, undermined by an invasive administration and a distortion of the educational and research mission.
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