The best parts of Samuel Fitoussi's latest work, which highlights the ideological excesses and support given by many 20th-century intellectuals to totalitarian regimes, showing that culture and intelligence do not protect against error, but can sometimes lead to it with zeal.
To quote Susan Neiman: "On the other hand, woke thinking that advocates a tribal vision of culture is not far from that of the Nazis who insisted that German music be played exclusively by Aryans, nor from that of Samuel Huntington defending what he called "Western culture" against the threats of destruction coming from other civilizations. To censor cultural appropriation is to sabotage the power of culture."
Discover the excerpts from Stéphane Louryan's book, Autopsy of the University.
Exclusive excerpt from Sabine Prokhoris' book, "Who's Afraid of Roman Polanski?" If there is one thing that Roman Polanski had to deal with, in several forms, the fatal experience, it is the destructive power of falsification erected as a norm.
Wokism was born on American campuses. It has spread to England and the European continent. Will its cradle become its tomb? Here are some exclusive excerpts from Sylvie Perez's book, "Ending Wokism."
Samuel Fitoussi's powerful work is worth a look. Here are some excerpts exclusively loaned to the Observatory that will definitely make you want to read more!
This is how multiculturalism has slipped into identitarian communitarianism, and how it is turning into totalitarianism before our eyes. Savage censorship is imposed by micro-collectives that only authorize themselves, in contempt of the law, while all-out politicization transforms activists into legislators and judges, in the name of "everything is political" dear to fascist militias, Stalinist apparatchiks and their leftist heirs. And, as in any totalitarian atmosphere, fear reigns supreme, on American campuses as well as in the offices of French university presidents: fear of losing one's job, fear of losing face, fear above all of finding oneself in the wrong camp or - worse - of finding oneself alone.
Jean-Claude Michéa points out to me that the murder of the Rambouillet police officer was not presented by the media as a femicide. That is true. Neither in this case, nor in any other similar one, has a policewoman's murder ever been described as a femicide. What should we conclude from this? Thanks to Monique Wittig, we learned a long time ago that "lesbians are not women"! Thanks to our journalists, we now know that female police officers, even heterosexual ones, are not either.
[by Renée Fregosi, excerpted with her permission from Penser Salman Rushdie, Coordinated by Daniel Salvatore Schiffer, Éditions de l'Aube Released November 10, 2022] The designated emblematic enemy of Islamism In 1989, the injunction made to “true believers” to kill Salman Rushdie
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