The week of Figarovox - Health pass: the impossible debate?

Dear subscribers,

It may have already ruined your family barbecues and you may have experienced the Covidian version of Carran d'Ache's famous drawing: “

They spoke about it

”.

The sanitary pass divides the French.

Between the excesses of some and the contempt of others, the escalation of risky comparisons and caricature, a well-argued debate on the future of our freedoms is becoming increasingly difficult.

Can we be worried about the implementation of an unprecedented measure in our liberal democracies without being accused of being a conspirator?

Can we judge that this is a necessary evil to get out of the crisis without being accused of wanting to establish a dictatorship?

This endless health day deeply damages civic friendship and we must now add to the many French fractures (economic, cultural, religious, political) a vaccine fracture with an uncertain outcome.

At Figarovox, we give voice to opposing points of view, without anathemas or trial of intent.

The sociologist Gérald Bronner thus responds to the opinion piece of François-Xavier Bellamy and Loïc Hervé published in our columns against the health pass, explaining why, according to him, their fears about our freedoms are disproportionate.

The LR advisor of Paris Nelly Garnier for her part deplores a "

worrying period when, under the pretext of a health emergency, the very fact of asking the question of the acceptable level of restriction of individual freedoms is no longer allowed

".

For Vincent Trémolet, it is a “

temporary test whose application must be flexible, proportionate: intelligent

”.

It's up to you to make up your own mind!

Happy reading and have a good weekend,

Eugenie Bastié

The summer series of Figaro Magazine -

Michel Audiard: "

Tonton gunslinger and titi gunshot

"

They hate conventions without despising tradition, they have an anar and conservative side at the same time.

At a time of political and sanitary correctness, the work and the life of these nonconformists give us a lesson in freedom.

Labeled as a "

collaborator

" by part of the left, the most famous screenwriter and dialogue writer in French cinema was above all an "

anar

" seduced by the style and the casualness of the literary right.

To discover on FigaroVox.

Michel Audiard.

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The debates of the week

Should the military be required to work time regularly?

In a forum at

Le Figaro

, seven marine writers - Didier Decoin, Loïc Finaz, Patrice Franceschi, Olivier Frébourg, Erik Orsenna, Yann Queffélec, Daniel Rondeau and Sylvain Tesson - appeal to the President of the Republic against the decision of the CJEU wanting to impose the military have a regular working time.

Can nuclear power help fight climate change?

In his book Le Nucléaire, EDF executive director Cédric Lewandowski discusses this divisive energy.

He explains that it should not be sacrificed in the name of the ecological struggle, by exposing its advantages in terms of ecology and sovereignty.

Should the Republicans and Xavier Bertrand get along?

The Republicans organized a meeting on July 20 to decide on the organization of an open primary.

Bruno Cautrès analyzes the difficulties of the right to nominate their candidate and determine a political line against Emmanuel Macron.

Is the Council of State entitled to dictate the pace of reforms?

Recently, the Wise Men urged the government to step up the fight against global warming and felt that unemployment insurance was not suited to the economic context.

Political assessments that call into question the separation of powers, believes the former minister.

Tribute to Jacques Rougeot, creator of UNI and visionary political fighter ...

Olivier Vial, president of UNI, pays tribute to Jacques Rougeot, professor of the French language at the Sorbonne and founder of the student union, who died on July 19, 2021 .

Is freedom of expression guaranteed in China?

Professor at the Collège de France, Anne Cheng presents the collective work, Penser en Chine, which she co-edited with Éric Vigne, in which the authors retrace the debates and ideas that cross the People's Republic, in its intellectual and political life.

The big interview of the week -

Édouard Cortès

After living for three months in the Périgord forest, perched on a tree, the former shepherd and author looks back on his experience and explains what this rupture initiated in him.

Faced with an aggressive postmodernity, he reaffirms the need to know how to contemplate the canopy.

Read on FigaroVox.

By the force of trees

, Édouard Cortès, Ecuador, 2020 Ecuador