Alongside the countless pieces of bad news that have been piling up for power in France since the President’s re-election in 2022, compounded by the calamitous dissolution of 2024, there may finally be one piece of good news today: the…
The situation in France and many other democratic countries is much more than a political crisis. It’s a crisis of meaning: common sense has disappeared. When you look at events around the world, you get the impression that what’s most…
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…
