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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Job profiles in inclusive writing: the administration backtracks

The period of Le Mars sees a proliferation of job advertisements for recruitment in higher education establishments of which the INSPE are now part in complete autonomy. The word "autonomy" is undoubtedly inappropriate when talking about the civil service, as some believe themselves to be freed by the performative magic of the word from any accountability to the public that finances them. Through our unprecedented mobilization, we have managed to force the administration to back down!

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador March 6, 2024
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Michel Ben Arrous (geographer) and Evelyne Sylva (journalist)

Unstoppable Hatred, or the Twisted 'Morality' of Edwy Plenel

On the ideological mechanics of anti-Zionist discourses and the rise of identity positions through the 'Plenel method': a way of diverting the words "morality" and "politics" from their meaning.

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Michel Ben Arrous (geographer) and Evelyne Sylva (journalist) 4 December 2023
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Cyrille Godonou

The bias of omission of the family quotient in the alleged gender-based tax inequality

In their book entitled The Gender of Capital. How the Family Reproduces Inequalities, sociologists Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac address in a box what they call "A Sexist Unthought: The Taxation of Child Support." The two researchers deplore the fact that "the taxation of child support in France does not contribute to reducing economic inequality between men and women following a separation, quite the contrary!" But an ongoing review of French taxation refutes their activist hypothesis.

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Cyrille Godonou 22 September 2023
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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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Common Places (Collective) 15 September 2023
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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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Xavier-Laurent Salvador August 30, 2023
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Common Places (Collective)

Mapping anti-Enlightenment movements

This mapping attempts to organize in a coherent manner the major ideological currents which oppose modernity on its two principles, autonomy (a common world subject to criticism) and sovereignty (a democratic society).

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Common Places (Collective) June 15, 2023
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Andreas Bikfalvi

In Defense of Merit in Science

Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy. This perspective documents the ongoing attempts to undermine the core principles of liberal epistemology and to replace merit with non-scientific, politically motivated criteria.

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Andreas Bikfalvi 30 April 2023

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