Society and Identities
Western societies are tearing themselves apart over questions of identity and values as much as economics.
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To understand these fractures is to illuminate the political climate of the present, without taking sides. This section covers democracies under strain (populism, polarization, elections), the clash between wokeness and conservatism, the new battle of the sexes, and the return of religion to public debate. Burning subjects, treated as social facts. I approach it as an active trader since 1994, a historian by training, and the author of a foreword to Ernest Renan: presenting the opposing readings rather than one camp’s truth, for the question of the nation and identity runs through every one of these fractures. The articles analyze the identity and political fractures of our societies, with the distance of the analyst rather than the passion of the activist.
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