This text is, in a way, symmetrical to the last one. Then, the question was: what makes humans stick together as ‘people’, at the cost of becoming rather poor and plain clones? This time, it is ju[...]
In a free and learned society, few taboos can survive for long. But, there is one, likely the core taboo of democracy, which is most risky to challenge. Kings had their jesters to keep them aware̷[...]
This week, how can a journalist address any other topic than the ‘burning’ ones: Iran… Gaza… or Sudan and Ukraine? But this column is not about ‘burning issues’: there is no lack o[...]
These days in Western Europe, the war rages around ‘public service’ media (i.e. state-run radio and TV). Radio France is being accused of biasing the ‘public’ with leftist talk, while the ‘p[...]
The first issue of this column addressed rather general topics, like peace, thence a bit abstract; this second one will be at the opposite and very down-to-earth: plastic pollution. But here again, th[...]
Is any human ‘truth’ bound to turn into a fossil soon after being in force? And is a ‘contrarian’ view the only way to get the oil out of the seed, as with two stones in a mill? Most honest cl[...]
11 Feb, 2026
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