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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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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The Role of Violence in the History of Wokeism

The secular framework of the secularization of shared spaces is under threat. "Race" is promoted as a "grid for reading the world", in the very words of the President of the CNRS. In reality, the violence is indeed on the side of decolonial thought, which intends to impose silence on those who do not fit into the framework that they claim to impose in the name of an ideology that they struggle to name. The open society, presented as an improbable horizon, is only a pretext to legitimize in the eyes of its zealous promoters the exercise of force for the advent of an "open future". Who does not see the seeds of tyranny in this masquerade?

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The 3 attacks on the democratic spirit in the management of companies and administrations conveyed by wokism

Woke ideology has long since penetrated the daily life of the business world and public administration. There are major and unavoidable phenomena that everyone thinks about. And there are these little everyday things, against which we don't know what to do, and which nibble away at our space of freedom every day. What are some examples? Where does it come from? What can we do?

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Jacques-Robert

The excesses of the American university

Three American university presidents have strangely revealed, without even realizing it, their adherence to the brown plague of anti-Semitism. Questioned by a parliamentary committee, they shamelessly asserted that the condemnation of the call for the genocide of the Jews "depends on the context."

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Nathalie Heinich

The semantic entryism of wokism

Democracy, universalism, rationality, secularism and freedom of expression – all values ​​trampled by the woke movement, by Nathalie Heinich.

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Decolonialism
Xavier-Laurent Salvador

We will not forget Camus

Many have taken the side of death: the humanists, for their part, will continue to believe in man. So, no: we will not forget Camus!

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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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