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Mikhail Kostylev

Viking woman or non-binary? When woke “science” tears itself apart

All the "proof" of the deceased's non-binarity rests on these two absurd assertions. Since they are contradicted as soon as they are stated, the authors are safe from any criticism. The game will consist of forgetting these reservations as soon as we have finished writing them, and reasoning thereafter as if they were certain.

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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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Ludovic Dillenseger

PIR policy selected at the French Academy in Rome

Thus sacrificing to the spirit of the times - or, according to some, to an ideology that has become dominant and to which it would be appropriate to conform - the Académie de France in Rome now seems to often give the advantage, in its selection process, to projects that authorize themselves by questioning gender norms (and in particular "hetero-patriarchy"), by criticizing racism (designated as "systemic" or inherent in all institutions of Western societies, while anti-Semitism remains, in these approaches, and unsurprisingly, as a blind spot) or even by criticizing, against the backdrop of a global ecological crisis invested with an apocalyptic dimension, "extractive" and "neo-liberal" capitalism.

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Olivier Galland

Young women at the forefront of wokeness

Several recently published studies show that a growing gap is opening up between the cultural and moral conceptions of young women and young men. By Olivier Galland.

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