Revue de Presse: September 15
Must our political discourse be civil? Is incivility a mark of defiance, or its own form of virtue-signaling? Are rejections of politeness and refusal to debate deliberate moral choices, […]
Sur les mœurs intellectuelles de Tocqueville
Le second volume de La Démocratie en Amérique traite des mœurs démocratiques, ce par quoi Tocqueville entend le sens large qu’avait le latin mores : « tout l’état moral et intellectuel d’un […]
Revue de Presse: September 8
Would Tocqueville have gone to Burning Man? The New York Times describes the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer and his interest in the annual desert festival frequented by anarchists, […]
Le soin, nouveau paradigme socio-démocratique
Lecture de Cynthia Fleury, Le Soin est un Humanisme (Tracts Gallimard, 2019). Philosophe et psychanalyste, titulaire de la Chaire « Philosophie » à l’hôpital Sainte-Anne, Cynthia Fleury publiait en avril 2019 […]
“Grenelle” galvaudé
France is currently conducting a “Grenelle des violences conjugales,” the latest in a long series of “Grenelles.” Young folks may not know the origin of this peculiar appellation for a […]
Showing Some Moix-ie
Moxie (U.S. slang): “force of character, determination, nerve.” Or chutzpah, one might say, as Yann Moix, the avowed (ex?) anti-Semite who claims to have abjured his former prejudice to become a […]
Obama and Trump, Pragmatists?
The week after Donald Trump was elected, Barack Obama held a press conference in which he called the then-President-elect “pragmatic.” Did Obama see in Trump the same flexibility and realism for […]
Revue de Presse: Sept. 1
Boris Johnson’s decision to “prorogue” parliament has set off a fresh wave of Brexit controversy. In the TLS, Philip Salmon explains some notable historical examples of past prorogations. Salmon notes […]
L’urgence des réformes n’est plus ce qu’elle était
Time was, “reform” was the watchword of Macronism. Without it, the candidate insisted, France was doomed to stagnation or decline. The established political parties lacked the stomach for it. Real […]
« Rien ne peut s’inventer dans les enclos du pouvoir »
Au fil des mois, le mouvement social algérien Hirak et ses revendications se sont transformés. Nous assistons à une accélération de l’histoire en Algérie. Mais, pour que cette accélération […]