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As war rages in Ukraine and China challenges democracy, where is liberalism — and what does it stand for?
2 years, 5 months ago

As war rages in Ukraine and China challenges democracy, where is liberalism — and what does it stand for?

ABC  

The brave defenders of Ukraine are hailed as fighting not just for their homeland but for a way of life. Isaiah Berlin called it the "liberal predicament" — to remain faithful to liberalism may be to fail liberalism. Cherniss says these thinkers offered a "tempered liberalism"; "an awareness of liberalism's drawbacks and defects". The political scientist Francis Fukuyama, channelling Hegel's …

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Defeated, but Marine Le Pen celebrates French election result that took her closer to power than ever
2 years, 8 months ago

Defeated, but Marine Le Pen celebrates French election result that took her closer to power than ever

The Telegraph  

Sunday night’s results, meanwhile, show that Ms Le Pen’s years-long effort to transform her party’s image – from a haven for jack-booted thugs under her father to a credible nationalist party of government under her own leadership – are paying dividends. Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on European nationalist movements at the Fondation Jean-Jaures, said Ms Le Pen’s 2022 campaign had …

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What is behind the rise of the far right in France?
2 years, 9 months ago

What is behind the rise of the far right in France?

Al Jazeera  

Mainstreaming of far-right politics in France is due to ‘declinist’ attitude acceptance of hardline views analysts say. Paris, France – Edwige Diaz bristles at the words “far right” when used to describe French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. “We define each other as localists, or nationalists.” While the RN party campaigns on topics central to the far right such as …

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Far-right French candidate makes taboo term his mantra
2 years, 10 months ago

Far-right French candidate makes taboo term his mantra

Associated Press  

PARIS — Two words, taboo for many in France because they evoke a conspiracy theory embraced by white supremacists, have been haunting the French presidential campaign. “Great replacement” rolls off the tongue of presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, an outsider with views to the right of the far-right who has made the term the underpinning of his campaign. “If I’m a …

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How a racist conspiracy theory edges into the mainstream in France
2 years, 10 months ago

How a racist conspiracy theory edges into the mainstream in France

Firstpost  

The “great replacement,” a conspiracy theory adopted by many white supremacists worldwide, has inspired mass killings in the United States and New Zealand Paris: Until a couple of years ago, the “great replacement” — a racist conspiracy theory that white Christian populations are being intentionally replaced by nonwhite immigrants — was so toxic in France that even Marine Le Pen, …

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Barbora Krejčíková wins French Open for maiden grand slam title, beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
3 years, 6 months ago

Barbora Krejčíková wins French Open for maiden grand slam title, beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

ABC  

Unseeded Barbora Krejčíková has won her first grand slam title by beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in the French Open final. Krejčíková and partner Kateria Siniakova already own two grand slam doubles titles and are scheduled to play in the final of that event in Paris on Sunday. I'm extremely happy.” Czech Republic's Barbora Krejčíková clinched a maiden grand …

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Director gives new life to deadly play by Camus
4 years ago

Director gives new life to deadly play by Camus

China Daily  

Scenes from Le Malentendu, in which actress Tao Yutong plays the sister, Cheng Feng plays the protagonist, the son, and Wang Linshan plays his wife. In the latest production, Le Malentendu, Yang invited actor Cheng Feng to play the role of Jan. Tao Yutong plays the role of the sister and Yang Xue plays the role of the mother. Director …

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Director gives new life to deadly play by Camus
4 years ago

Director gives new life to deadly play by Camus

China Daily  

Scenes from Le Malentendu, in which actress Tao Yutong plays the sister, Cheng Feng plays the protagonist, the son, and Wang Linshan plays his wife. In the latest production, Le Malentendu, Yang invited actor Cheng Feng to play the role of Jan. Tao Yutong plays the role of the sister and Yang Xue plays the role of the mother. Director …

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The surprising positivity of pessimism
4 years, 1 month ago

The surprising positivity of pessimism

The Independent  

The first season of HBO’s True Detective stars Matthew McConaughey as a lithe, taciturn detective named Rust Cohle. Life, concluded modern pessimism’s godfather, Arthur Schopenhauer, “is a business that does not cover its costs”. Pessimists perceive, as the scholar Joshua Foa Dienstag describes it, “a persistent mismatch between human purposes and the means available to achieve them; between our desire …

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Gasping For Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects Of Lethal Injection
4 years, 3 months ago

Gasping For Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects Of Lethal Injection

NPR  

Gasping For Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects Of Lethal Injection Enlarge this image Nicole Xu for NPR Nicole Xu for NPR Dr. Joel Zivot stared at the autopsy reports. Sponsor Message "These autopsy reports show definitively without question that these inmates are developing pulmonary edema," says Allen Bohnert, a federal public defender who represents Ohio inmates with upcoming executions. He …

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Looking back at ‘La Peste’ by Albert Camus
4 years, 9 months ago

Looking back at ‘La Peste’ by Albert Camus

The Hindu  

When La Peste was published in 1947, it was read in part as an allegory of France’s plight under Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Soon on his rounds he sees rats everywhere, some dead, others alive, and one of his patients who has asthma wryly comments: “they’re coming out, have you noticed?” People start dying, local authorities reluctantly …

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Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’ and our own Great Reset
4 years, 9 months ago

Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’ and our own Great Reset

LA Times  

In my self-isolating household in upstate New York, the pandemic has thus far produced boredom eating, boredom watching, hiking, candlelight dinners and, later in the evening, some reading out loud. A friend emails from the Bay Area to say she’s baked her first loaf of bread; another writes from Australia to say that this epidemic will be “a giant mirror …

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The "Replacement Theory" has been a primary motivation in a series of deadly shootings
5 years, 5 months ago

The "Replacement Theory" has been a primary motivation in a series of deadly shootings

Salon  

Only 19 minutes before 911 was first alerted that a terrorist shooting had occurred in El Paso, Texas on Saturday, the suspect posted a 2300-word manifesto online that outlined his motives. The suspect spoke of a “Hispanic invasion of Texas,” asserting, “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can be more sustainable.” At the …

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Taboos fall away as far-right EU candidates breach red line
5 years, 7 months ago

Taboos fall away as far-right EU candidates breach red line

Associated Press  

PLIEUX, France — Europe’s taboos are falling away. A forthcoming study shared with The Associated Press shows a dramatic rise in recent years of two in particular: “the great replacement,” which asserts that European populations are being supplanted by Muslim immigrants as part of a global plot, and its corollary, “remigration,” the chilling notion of returning immigrants to their native …

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How Albert Camus found solace in the absurdity of football
5 years, 8 months ago

How Albert Camus found solace in the absurdity of football

The Independent  

On 16 October 1957, Albert Camus was eating lunch at a restaurant in the heart of Paris’s Latin Quarter. Thanks almost entirely to a much-circulated misquote – “all that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football” – Camus’ fondness for the game is well-known. open image in gallery Camus with his RUA team Football lit …

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