Pascal Bruckner is a writer and philosopher. He is also a member of the Goncourt academy.
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In the intellectual field, Mathieu Bock-Côté occupies a special place: a Quebecer of origin, he stands between France, of which he is an attentive observer, and the North American world where he notes, as a minority, the progressive control of Anglophones over the French-speaking population.
And Canada itself is nothing more than an ideological replica of its big neighbor, a docile duplicate embodied by the political Zelig that is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
This situation straddling three worlds makes the reflection of this sociologist unique, including in the conservative universe to which he claims to be.
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Pascal Bruckner: "We are forced to make our seclusion a way of life"
In this hard-hitting essay, Mathieu Bock-Côté takes up an intuition that I have been developing for many years: the confrontation of social classes is gradually replaced, under the effect of American campuses,
"these open-air insane asylums"
by the struggle. of races.
The American model
Like a virus
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