https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Macron-and-the-sex-thieves https://booksandideas.net/Macron-and-the-sex-thieves 2025-06-10T07:00:00Z text/html en Julien Bonhomme International Africa post-truth rumor <p>A rumour is circulating in some African countries: the French state is organising penis thefts to offset declining fertility. The rumour, spread by Russian propaganda, has become fake news.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Birth-of-Fake-News https://booksandideas.net/The-Birth-of-Fake-News 2020-05-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Sarah Maza History democracy reason truth political theory Books and ideas originals post-truth technocraty <p>While the expression “fake news” appeared recently, the problem itself, Sophia Rosenfeld argues, can be retraced to the very birth of democracy. Drawing upon the history of ideas, <i>Democracy and Truth</i> investigates the roots of current tensions around the question of truth in politics.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Regime-of-Opinion https://booksandideas.net/The-Regime-of-Opinion 2019-05-06T07:00:00Z text/html en Alain Policar Philosophy democracy truth opinion fiction relativism post-truth <p>The present era tends to blur the line between the true and the false. Democracy, which is based on the conflict of opinions and hence the horizon of a common truth, is consequently compromised. Yet for Myriam Revault d'Allones, this threat also hangs over the imagination.</p>