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/An-Anti-Totalitarian-Publisher https://booksandideas.net/An-Anti-Totalitarian-Publisher 2026-04-16T07:30:00Z text/html en Robin Freymond History communism publishing anti-totalitarianism Aron Cairn.info right <p>Backed by Raymond Aron and Manès Sperber, the French publishing house Calmann-Lévy championed anti-communism and the fight against totalitarianism from the end of World War <span class="caps">II</span>.</p> https://booksandideas.net/A-hard-right-turn https://booksandideas.net/A-hard-right-turn 2026-01-15T09:00:00Z text/html en Gwendal Châton Politics media liberalism left far-right politics Cairn.info right <p>Is France heading to the right, as everyone seems to think? According to Vincent Tiberj, it all depends on how this rightward turn is defined. For now, the French prefer the left's values.</p>