The human epic through the ages is mysterious… And sometimes, I find myself thinking about what our humanity would have become without these men and women who, often anonymous and silent, worked to preserve it as best they could, even to the point of performing miracles. It is one of these miracles that I am about to tell you about…

Just as the death drive was reaching its highest expression in France, with the so-called "euthanasia" law, passed on May 27, 2025, I had an unexpected encounter, in an unsuspected place, which appeared to me like a powerful beam of light sweeping away this darkness in its path. Fiat lux.

This wisdom of "nothing in excess" calls upon the physical, emotional, and psychological life of the individual. It is a daily practice of spiritual life, intimately linked to self-knowledge and scrupulous observation of oneself, and in particular of one's own needs.

In line with my reflection on kairos, which concluded on the necessary effort with which to strive towards introspective and in-depth knowledge of oneself, it is now logical that we take on board this maxim as famous as it is misunderstood: "know thyself", Γνῶθι σεαυτόν.

Here, Pittakos of Mytilene seems to urge us to discern kairos, to learn to know it. It would therefore be, not only a natural gift, an innate talent, a brilliant intuition, but also a quality to be acquired.

Who is Sébastien Castellion? He is a great humanist who leads a poor existence, free from any material ties. He lives from his translations and the lessons he gives. His conscience revolts before the burning of Michel Servetus: he cannot remain silent and accuses Calvin. He then chooses the heroic life, without support, without a party, without a protector, without friends to support him openly. Castellion knows that such an attack condemns him, a helpless and isolated indivi

According to one of the seven sages of Antiquity, Bias of Priene, "Most men are wicked". It is perhaps worth revisiting this maxim today to grasp its full depth... and its warnings!

On the 65th anniversary of his death, it may be useful to take stock of his thinking, to ask ourselves how this famous philosopher and novelist would undoubtedly have understood our times, but above all, what we could take away from his work to fill our humanist bag.

Recent years have exposed us not only to mass propaganda, but also to its shamelessness: it no longer hides, it asserts itself, it flaunts itself, it claims its own status as information prostitute. Minds that have seen these crude maneuvers, for example, those of the actors we regularly find in crisis situations, have emerged from a first Plato's Cave. But what happens to them afterwards?

This work is masterful, because in a few pages, Leo Löwenthal manages to paint the finest psychological portrait I know, especially for his time, of atomization in a totalitarian period, that is to say, of the role played by terror in transforming the individual into an isolated and desperate cell at the heart of a large mass. This German sociologist and philosopher, linked to the Frankfurt School, who emigrated to the United States to flee Nazism, was aware of the cancellati

Following our report on "The Dictatorship on the Move!", in the latest issue of "Elements", we interviewed Ariane Bilheran at length, who has just published a very rich Psychopathologie du totalitarisme published by Guy Trédaniel. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, philosopher, clinical psychologist, doctor in psychopathology, and collaborator of "Antipresse" by our friend and collaborator Slobodan Despot, no one was better placed than Ariane Bilheran to analyze the

Last week was dedicated to André Suarès's commitments against totalitarianism and his invitation to travel. This week we offer you another part of Suarès' work, Remedies for the Free Spirit. With our greatest wish: to encourage you to (re)discover his books.

The mark of genius is to enlighten us, even post-mortem, when times become confusing and dark. However, the most powerful stars are not always easily recognizable at first glance. We must learn to put on the right glasses to distinguish their enlightenment. Immense French author of the first half of the twentieth century, normalien, great traveler, pianist, poet, playwright, thinker, philosopher, André Suarès, through his commitments against totalitarian ugliness and in favor

Currently living in Colombia, she was one of the first to point out, in March 2020, at the beginning of the lockdown linked to the emergence of the famous Covid, that from the point of view of political philosophy, we were facing a totalitarian drift and, from the psychopathological point of view, a paranoiac delusion.

One of the most formidable weapons of the harassing powers is slander, that is to say the defamatory and mendacious attack ad personam against the messenger, so that his message is discredited, or even, so that he is designated as the person to be brought down, or "the bad person" whose message should absolutely not be listened to.