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France: 1940-2021 / Books/Livres / Le Club / Focus

L’embarras du choix

11 January 2021 | Emile Chabal

In this post, Emile Chabal responds to reviews of his book—France (Polity, 2020), a short history of the country since 1940—by Art Goldhammer and Emmanuel Jousse.    Writing the history […]

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Revue de presse

Revue de Presse : 20 décembre

20 December 2020 | Tocqueville 21

En France, encore une fois, l’on débat de la laïcité. Comme Patrick Weil nous rappelle, la laïcité c’est d’abord du droit, qui protège la liberté de conscience de chacun.e, et […]

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Revue de Presse: November 29

29 November 2020 | Tocqueville 21

Under fire from French officials and media figures, James McAuley of the Washington Post and Adam Nossiter of the New York Times defend their recent reporting. The two Paris correspondents […]

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Revue de Presse : 15 novembre

15 November 2020 | Tocqueville 21

Le sociologue Farhad Khosrokhavar a publié dans Politico EU une critique de la « laïcité radicale » en France – ce qu’il compare à une religion d’État, même si cette religion est blasphématoire par […]

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“This assault on academic freedom is an assault on the democratic rule of law”

3 November 2020 | Tocqueville 21

This week, a group of French scholars and writers published a “Manifesto of 100 Intellectuals,” which accused various scholars and journalists in France of complicity in terrorism, and called for […]

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Révolte ! / Le Club / Focus

Liban : De la crise au soulèvement

9 January 2020 | Farès Sassine

Depuis la formation du Grand Liban, décision mandataire française en 1920, puis la proclamation de la République libanaise en 1926 et l’obtention de son indépendance en 1943, le pays n’a […]

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Revue de Presse: December 1

1 December 2019 | Tocqueville 21

The crisis of liberalism lies in its inability to explain modern phenomena, Katrina Forrester argues in The Guardian. Attempting to understand the turbulent politics of recent years, liberals often point […]

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Books/Livres / Danielle Charette: Blog editor

Reading Kamel Daoud in America

18 December 2018 | Danielle Charette

Review of Kamel Daoud, Chroniques: Selected Columns, 2010-2016 (Other Press, 2018) Translated by Elisabeth Zerofsky I’m a latecomer to the Affaire Daoud. I overlooked the fawning coverage that Kamel Daoud’s novel, […]

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Sex and Secularism / Le Club / Focus

Focus: Sex and Secularism

18 June 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

  When French and American scholars and journalists attempt to discuss the role of religion in their respective democracies, it is often apparent that in more senses than one, they […]

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Sex and Secularism: For a Critical History

12 June 2018 | Joan Wallach Scott

This is Joan Wallach Scott’s reply to her four reviewers in our critical exchange on her book Sex and Secularism. To see the four reviews, follow the link here.   I […]

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Une critique constructive de la laïcité

18 June 2018 | Valentine Zuber

Cet article est le quatrième dans notre échange critique sur le livre de Joan Wallach Scott, Sex and Secularism. Pour accéder aux autres critiques et la réponse de J. Scott, veuillez […]

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Sex and Secularism / Le Club / Focus

The Secular Alibi

13 June 2018 | Peter Coviello

This is the third of four reviews of Joan Wallach Scott’s Sex and Secularism. To see the other reviews as well as Scott’s reply, follow the link here.   Joan Wallach […]

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Secularism as a Liberal Ideal

18 June 2018 | Tim Crane

This is the first of four reviews of Joan Wallach Scott’s Sex and Secularism. To see the other reviews as well as Scott’s reply, follow the link here.   Sex and […]

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Albert Memmi: From Anti-Colonialism to Laïcité (by way of Zionism)

30 May 2018 | Daniel Gordon

Albert Memmi, Tunisie, An I (CNRS Éditions, 2017). Albert Memmi, Portraits (CNRS Éditions, 2015). Albert Memmi, Penser à vif: de la colonization à la laïcité (Non Lieu, 2017). The Albert […]

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Jacob Hamburger: Blog Editor

Laïcité and the Clavreul Report

7 March 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

Patrick Weil, whom we recently featured on this blog, has a fascinating interview in a recent issue of Marianne on laïcité and the way it has been approached by Emmanuel Macron and the […]

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Laïcité, republicanism, and the left

25 January 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

  When I logged on to Facebook last night, the first thing I found in my feed was a theater invitation from Jean-Luc Mélenchon. At the Théâtre de Ménilmontant this […]

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