The survival of civilization, democracy and fair, sustainable development depends on an almost unique and completely overlooked factor: civility. Its opposite is better known: incivility, that intolerable attitude which allows us to ignore the consequences of our actions on those…
Once the heatwave of June 2025 is over, other priorities will come to the fore: all over the world, and particularly in Europe and France, we’ll see the resurgence of other urgent issues: purchasing power, pensions, war, employment, education, health,…
Of the four middle schools and three high schools in France that bear the name of Françoise Dolto, one has just tragically stood out. The circumstances of this tragedy, exceptional though they may be, should not lead us to make…
I would have liked to have been able to support the bill just passed by the National Assembly on end-of-life conditions and the right to assisted dying. But I cannot. I would have liked to because nothing would be more…
There are subjects that we don’t dare to broach because they make us feel too guilty. We prefer not to talk about them and let a complicit silence settle in, until at some point it becomes unbearable. And it is…
At a time when huge threats are unfolding all over the world, threatening the very survival of humanity and calling for very large-scale collective responses, we hear writers, journalists and politicians everywhere advocating withdrawal into oneself and denouncing “the system”…
Even though I have hardly ever talked about cinema in my columns here (and perhaps I am expected to talk more about geopolitics, especially at the moment), on the eve of International Women’s Rights Day, I would like to recommend…
Jeff Bezos’ decision to no longer publish in the opinion pages of the Washington Post any views other than those defending absolute economic freedom and total freedom of expression, thus refusing from now on to give a voice in his…
During the sixth decade of the 20th century, a dazzling intellectual and political movement, the Situationist International, developed the idea that modern society was no more than a spectacle given to humans. In one of the movement’s landmark books, “The…
