First published 2017-02-10 Pascal Bruckner | Le Figaro Anti-racism has become a judicial market INTERVIEW : For the philosopher, Pascal Bruckner, the concept of ‘Islamophobia’ is “a weapon of mass intimidation” whose […]
First Control The Vocabulary
The Permanent Epiphany
First published 2017-02-05 Jacques Julliard | Le Figaro The disillusionment with progress The confrontation between two sensibilities, progressivist and conservative, is replacing the Left-Right cleavage, observes the historian and essayist. Having dissected the mentality […]
Trial By Irony
First published 2017-01-01 Jacques Julliard | Le Figaro How to be a conservative? The historian and essayist, Jacques Julliard, analyzes the conservative push to which François Fillon’s victory in the conservative primaries testifies. He […]
One Planet, Three Systems
2016-10-14 Éric Zemmour | Le Figaro The current war of civilization is founded as much on geography as on history First published in Le Figaro 2016-10-14 Éric Zemmour believes that different epochs are […]
To Theorize Is To Intimidate
Opinion Attempts to understand the phenomenon of political correctness now form a respectable corpus of work. It is a study close to one of The Europeans’ core proclivities, as a glance at the tag-cloud […]
The Exhausted Lie
Opinion Intellectuals of the French Left are, often on their own admission, beginning to look as silly as the postmodernist clique who preferred arcane formulae to clarity of thought and exposition, and with […]
The Game of Values
Opinion The Europeans has long argued that culture teaches values: not values culture, as might be implied by the political discourse of the West, bereft as it is of all historical perspective. There, human rights recast as […]
