What happens when a philosopher, armed with good reading, finds herself caught in an abusive—yet ordinary—airport search? The result is a profound meditation on the voluntary servitude that accompanies modernity like its shadow…

A criticism was recently leveled at Antipresse: we do not propose solutions; our findings are purely descriptive and analytical—and therefore depressing—because we provide neither remedies nor action for readers. I wanted to respond to this remark based on my own reflection and personal experience.

What are "sanitary" masks the mask of? From an idyll with the nebulous "Common Good", this principle of gregarious leveling which is one of the essential driving forces of the totalitarian drift.

The media do not act as transmitters of information, but as places for chatter, including many so-called alternative media, which are beginning to function in a manner identical to the mass media: like the sidewalk across the street, in short, from the official media.

Confusing words with actions is a sign of regression into childhood, specifically into magical thinking. But when this magical thinking becomes the way adults operate, and a collective one at that, we are facing a seriously ill society.

When periods become totalitarian, the truth is mostly present in what is not named. We must always question what is being shown to us in an obvious way and what is being hidden from us.

Before denouncing totalitarianism in general, have we made sure that it does not reside within ourselves? To find out, we must pay attention to certain processes that take place within groups as well as within individuals. Here is a first glimpse.

Arcadia was a mountainous region of Greece located in the center of the Peloponnese Peninsula, bordered to the east by the Aegean Sea. It was named after Arcas, a mythological king. The Arcadians were considered the first inhabitants of the region. For bucolic Latin and Hellenic poetry, Arcadia represented the golden age, the ideal country. Arcadia is notably mentioned by Diotima the priestess in Plato's Symposium.

The poetic feeling of innocence, Ariane Bilheran is convinced, is created in childhood, and it is nourished by the kindness shown to animals. The animal shelter she runs is a haven not only for these innocent creatures, but also for the human soul.

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26th was widely discussed, making my article published on Sunday seem almost anachronistic, as if it belonged to the last century. What I take away from it here is that the much-feared attack did indeed take place, but in the form of an indecent assault, carried out from within and by those in power themselves.

The cost of these Olympics is unreasonable, no decision holds water, everything becomes perfectly illogical to the point that the only rationally plausible explanation is that of an additional experiment in social control and a test of submission among the population.

Nowadays, "parliamentary immunity" allows members of parliament to escape the consequences of their actions. In ancient Athens, it was exactly the opposite: by proposing an inadmissible law, one put one's own life on the line... Is it any wonder that our regimes, deprived of any checks and balances, descend into chaos?

Unlike the Colombian people among whom she lives, Ariane Bilheran notes that the French constantly demand their dose of illusions. Recent outbursts of collective hatred and hypocrisy vividly illustrate this addiction.

If there is one work that I have been sharing without moderation in my "Knowledge of the Ancients" workshops since 2021, it is Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiæ. I believe that this masterpiece is indeed one of those that most helps us to face life's misfortunes, and it seems urgent to me to rehabilitate it to the rightful notoriety that befits it.

The study of an ancient language as an antidote to modern-day loss of reason and totalitarianism? It may seem frivolous, but... From the origin of words to the structure of thought, Latin offers us a veritable arsenal of defense against mental decay.

Infiltration and stalking by the secret services, arrest in Mexico on charges as diverse as they are provisional, betrayal, solitary confinement: the founder of the Grand Jury was spared nothing. The persecution of Reiner Fuellmich speaks volumes about the decline of the rule of law in Germany and the West. We take stock with Ms. Virginie de Araújo-Recchia, dated June 19, 2024.

When we lose our bearings, when values are reversed, and when civilization is going through intense turbulence, it is always relevant to return to the works of the Ancients, to the very origins of what founded our humanities. The thought of Empedocles, diverse and abundant, gives us in particular a key to understanding our era of hatred — and also of awakening!

If there is one figure who inflames minds and unleashes passions, it is Sigmund Freud. The "father of psychoanalysis", who has been called a charlatan, a Zionist, an occult magician, an incestuous father, and so on, leaves no one indifferent. In France in particular, he is credited with the discovery of "infantile sexuality".

Thus, as incredible as it may seem, the entire "declaration of sexual rights", which is now being rolled out by the WHO, in the name of "sexual health" (a linguistic misuse on which there would also be much to say), is based on a sophism which has distorted the logic of reasoning in order to better manipulate public opinion.

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in Tuscany, to a notary father and a peasant mother who left her son with his natural father, who raised him along with his nine brothers and two sisters. The mother was forbidden to see her son. His grandfather was also a notary. Leonardo da Vinci did receive an education, but it was very limited: he learned to read in the vernacular and would only study Latin later, as an autodidact. It seems that Tuscan nature served as his mot