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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionBeware of Pied Pipers throughout EuropeThe fatal attraction of those ‘white masks’ seeking to alert people to the growing 'dictatorship of health'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionMacron’s collusion with COVID has not destroyed France’s spiritFor an 11th time, the French president has promised light at the end of the COVID tunnel. No wonder public anger has...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: InterviewFeminism, war and racism: an interview with Christine Delphy'Above all, we have to ask ourselves what have we achieved? What can we do as French or European women?'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionIn France, basketball takes an anti-racist standIt is not going to be easy for the country’s young basketball players to change attitudes in the Republic
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisGénération Identitaire ban could rally supporters of the radical right in FranceClément Martin, a senior member of the anti-migrant movement, tells openDemocracy ‘the fight is not over’
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionFrance’s justice minister caught in a conflict of interestFacing action over corruption allegations, President Macron’s ministers are out to neuter the messenger
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe Sarkozy ruling is just the latest in France’s long history of corruptionThe corruption is more than enough to explain the crisis of confidence in French established politics
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhat has killed more people in France since 2000? Islamic terrorism or ‘la chasse’?Playing to the gallery of anti-Muslim prejudice is something that successive French presidents have engaged in since...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: Opinion‘One of the problems in France is distrust’, Macron warns. Why might that be?When it comes to selling things that kill, France is the rising star, when it comes to those that save lives, such...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From keystroke to brushstroke: where’s the art in modern work?Does the internet rob us of the pleasure of being together, acting together, making the future together?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhy has Macron rejected the joint enterprise that defeats COVID-19?In the France of today, it would mean democratising the response to the virus, not imprisoning it in the closed...
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Published in: Global ExtremesIs religious fervor compatible with democracy?If one believes that democracy is an abomination and against God’s rule, one may not even ponder it.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWar of images in ParisLike the Gilets jaunes the authorities hope to grind this coalition down by police intimidation, scare stories of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDancing with the devil: how the EU is complicit in Egypt’s brutal regimeJust weeks after staff from an Egyptian human rights group were arrested on terror charges, Macron rolled out the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionFrench intelligentsia and Little Tom Thumb: the questionable ethics of the ‘100’ French academicsA response to the Open Letter from ‘100’ French Scholars, which singled out the author for special mention.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWinning trust in the Fifth Republic: an uphill struggleFrom vaccines to cuts, benefits, low wages, policing and the environment, how is growing skepticism and gathering...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionFrench Republican hypocrisy and the long slow descent into reactionMacron’s shift to the right appears to have been a long time coming. But recent events show how quickly a slide...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe questions that must be asked in Paris today“ The capital had offered two buildings, large enough to give emergency accommodation for all, if the central...
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Published in: Global ExtremesJihadi paranoia: why we (still) need to rethink the debate on terrorism and political violenceManaging Jihadi paranoia represents one of the main challenges faced by our political and academic systems.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionOpen letter: a response from the '100' French scholars"We want to reply to the open letter written by academics from mostly English-speaking universities that was...
