Tag: intellectuals
a call from intellectuals to “leave the booksellers of Paris in their traditional and secular location”
“Anything that degrades culture shortens the paths that lead to servitude” : this reflection of one of the greatest French writers of the XXe century, Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for…
End of life: intellectuals and religious invited to the Élysée this evening by Emmanuel Macron
Jacques Serais 08:33, March 09, 2023 After retirement, this is another file that Emmanuel Macron intends to look into: the question of the end of life. On the occasion of…
The quota intellectuals – should we really still think?
A pluralistic democracy with its routines and narrowed perspectives needs intelligent and critical voices that shake the public awake. Unfortunately, today more and more scandal-mongers and self-promoters pass for intellectuals.…
German intellectuals are torn between pacifism and military support
German journalist Alice Schwarzer, in Berlin, Germany, November 12, 2018. FABRIZIO BENSCH / REUTERS The intellectuals are back in Germany. Not that they have disappeared. But it had been a…
Response to “open letter”: These “intellectuals” must have lost their minds
Response to “open letter” These “intellectuals” must have lost their minds A reply by Denis Trubetskoy, Kyiv May 1, 2022, 7:21 p.m The open letter from artists and intellectuals around…
War in Ukraine: intellectuals from the Russian diaspora on the offensive
IThey are a writer, economist, and choreographer. Three Russians have just founded a non-profit charity to raise funds to help Ukrainian refugees: True Russia. The first, Boris Akunin, whose real…
Dismay and shame among Russia’s intellectuals
WWhilst isolated anti-war vigils are reported from a number of Russian cities, but police arrests quickly cut them down, liberal Russian intellectuals are expressing horror and deep shame at their…
Don’t Look Up agitates the elites: the Netflix film inspires intellectuals and activists
A true pop and cultural phenomenon, Don’t Look Up is also a phenomenon among the intellectual elites. Or when pop culture meets the international intelligentsia… Since its release on December…
Sorbonne: minister and intellectuals deconstruct the “woke” during a first day of unambiguous conference
Reporting Article reserved for subscribers Racialism, new feminism, “cancel culture”… The first day of the conference on the question of deconstruction, in which Jean-Michel Blanquer participated, took place in a…
In Slovenia, the state hunts intellectuals from museums
Demonstration to defend culture, in Ljubljana (Slovenia), June 19, 2020. SOPA IMAGES / HÉMIS Museum of Architecture, Museum of Ethnography, National Museum, Museum of Contemporary History, Modern Gallery, National Book…