TRIBUNE. French journalist living in Boston, Jean Lesieur no longer recognizes his adopted country. Trump, prevailing racism, pandemic… America is in crisis.
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VS’is one of the moments that will forever be remembered in the history of democracy in America. It is June 9, 1954. Senator McCarthy’s commission hearings are in full swing at the Capitol in Washington. For a few weeks now, US Army officers have appeared before the slayer of communist “witches” in all strata of society. Alongside the defendants of the day, Joseph Welch, lawyer in Boston, graduate of Harvard Law School, brilliant, honest, inspired – he will play, a few years later, in Otto Preminger’s film, Autopsy of a murder. Between the senator and the lawyer, the storm rises. The assaults of rhetoric are multiplying. Dogmatic bad faith on the one hand, democratic morality on the other. Until the shock that will remain, so …
De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name has become synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the call of June 18, established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during his presidency, after his death he became a myth, an ideal of a politician that we find ourselves regretting on the right and the left.
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