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Month: April 2017

  • Politique

Le mythe du péril fasciste ou comment faire voter les boeufs

  • Posted on April 27, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Comme d’habitude après une victoire du FN, on a droit aux mêmes inepties sur le retour des heures-les-plus-sombres-de-notre-histoire, le péril fasciste qui plane sur la France, etc. Donc ça fait plus de 30 ans qu’on leur fait le coup, mais de toute évidence, certains n’ont toujours…

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  • Academia

CGSU supporters just can’t help embarrassing themselves

  • Posted on April 26, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I have written about CGSU before, when I was fighting against unionization, but they are back in the news. A few graduate students have recently published a column against Prof. David Collum in the Cornell Daily Sun, whom they accused…

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  • Politics

Why Le Pen can’t win

  • Posted on April 25, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A lot of people in the US, who often make the comparison with Brexit and Trump’s election, seem convinced that Le Pen can win the second round of the French presidential election against Macron in two weeks, but she really can’t and…

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  • Politique

Pourquoi Le Pen ne peut pas gagner et autres réflexions sur le premier tour

  • Posted on April 24, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Macron s’est donc qualifié pour le second tour avec Le Pen et sera donc Président de la République dans quinze jours. En effet, même si l’on va essayer de vous faire peur, Le Pen n’a absolument aucune chance. Autant il…

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  • Politique

Un point sur la présidentielle et pourquoi Fillon reste le meilleur candidat

  • Posted on April 22, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Je sais que j’avais dit que mon billet sur l’élection serait le dernier avant le premier tour, mais je veux faire un dernier point sur la situation à quelques heures de l’élection et expliquer pourquoi je pense que Fillon est le…

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  • Academia

Kipnis on Peter Ludlow and Title IX nonsense

  • Posted on April 19, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Laura Kipnis, whose ordeal I mentioned recently, just published another piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. She explains what she saw during the process that led to Peter Ludlow’s resignation from his job at Northwestern University and it’s pretty damning…

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  • Politique

Un dernier mot sur la présidentielle avant le premier tour

  • Posted on April 17, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Comme vous l’avez sans doute remarqué, ça faisait un moment que je n’avais pas parlé de l’élection présidentielle française. La raison principale est que cette campagne a été un tel bordel qu’il était difficile de savoir ce qui allait se passer,…

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What’s next on Nec Pluribus Impar

  • Posted on April 14, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I have been pretty sick this week and I have a lot of work, so I didn’t really have time to take care of the blog, but I wanted to let you know that I had started working on a follow-up to…

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Links – 04/13/2014

  • Posted on April 13, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The word “entrée” is used to mean something like appetizer in France, yet in the US it’s used to mean something like “main dish”, i. e. pretty much the opposite. I have always been very puzzled by that, but Nora Matland…

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  • Politics

On the chemical attack in Syria (part 1)

  • Posted on April 6, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you probably know unless you live in a cave, another chemical attack is alleged to have taken place in Syria on Tuesday, which killed several people in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. The New York Times published a story about…

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