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Jacques-Robert

The Cultural Revolution Has Come to California

The Cultural Revolution! It seems that the younger people have forgotten it… Did they ever know it, or even hear about it? It raged in China for a whole decade, from 1966 to 1976, and here it is in California…

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Alexander Feigenbaum

Are Jews racialized like everyone else?

An influential philosopher of decolonialism, Enrique Dussel develops a "pluriversal" view of antiracism. He unfortunately refuses to address the oppressions linked to jihad and seems to put aside the Holocaust and other genocides.

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Vincent Tournier

Hamas, Europe and Peace

The butchery planned by Hamas did not succeed in shaking the certainties of the pro-Palestinian camp. The usual arguments quickly returned.

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Common Places (Collective)

State Islamism on the Move…

Salma has been a secular activist for years. She warns about the government's project of an "Islam of France". The notes are hers. Comments collected on July 8, 2019 and published on July 12, 2019 on the Lieux Communs website.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The influence of Anglo-Saxon liberal models disseminated by Brussels on Research

The European Research Council (ERC) budget for the seven-year Horizon Europe programme amounts to €16 billion, dedicated to EU member states and associated nations, under the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FPRI). Is France autonomous in its higher education policy? No, because it conforms to European policies inspired by the United Nations aimed at achieving externally set objectives. Over the past 15 years, research and higher education in France have been silently transformed, partly influenced by the Anglo-Saxon liberal models established by Brussels.

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Decolonialism
Nathalie Heinich

When sociologists legitimize riots

No sociologist who cares about preserving a minimum of dignity and credibility for the latter can identify with a group that dishonors itself in this way. As for those who support this distressing motion, we suggest that they reserve their activism for the radical left, whose positions they are thus borrowing. A text signed by:
Alain EHRENBERG
​​​​​​​Monique DAGNAUD
​​​​​​​Julien DAMON
​​​​​​​Olivier GALLAND
Nathalie HEINICH
Philippe d'IRIBARNE
​​​​​​​Jean-Claude KAUFMANN
​​​​​​​Michel MESSU
​​​​​​​Dominique SCHNAPPER

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