Period. Review Limit will bow out on Thursday, October 27, with a twenty-seventh and final issue. The conservative and anti-liberal quarterly, of Catholic inspiration, will have campaigned for seven years for “integral ecology”, or to link environmental ecology to questions of bioethics. A mission that is coming to an end due to a too low number of subscribers: 1,200, while the balance point requires 1,500. “We talked about all our obsessions: we gave food for thought, a coherent universe, but I think we covered the topics”, explains the publication and editorial director, Paul Piccarreta.
One who describes himself as “Bolcho catho” founded the magazine in March 2014 alongside Eugénie Bastié – one of the future media faces of the young reactionary right, who became a journalist at the Figaro – and Gaultier Bès, co-initiator of the Watchers, a movement close to La Manif pour tous, a collective opposed to marriage for same-sex couples in 2013.
Together, from the first issue published in September 2015, they advocate degrowth and frontally criticize technological progress. Recognizing themselves in the encyclical Laudato si’ of Pope Francis, in which he criticizes consumerism and denounces global warming, they are inspired by the writings of Simone Weil or Georges Bernanos, and will open their columns in particular to the philosopher Jean- Claude Michea.
Review Limit assumes its conservatism while saying “neither left nor right”. To those who denigrate the “triangle” magazine, Gaultier Bès responds in his editorial by defending a “oblique positioning that inquisitors 2.0 call confusionism”.
A ridge line that will all the same end up creating real tensions. Eugénie Bastié finally left the magazine in 2019, not appreciating “imbalance” settling, according to her, between conservatives and “left-wing cathos” who then make up the journal. “The right-left divide has finally caught up with us”judges the essayist.