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/Terrorists-Under-the-Radar https://booksandideas.net/Terrorists-Under-the-Radar 2026-05-07T06:30:00Z text/html en Christian Chevandier History violence terrorism May 68 Cairn.info <p>Alongside its Paris branch, the French terrorist group Action Directe also operated a Lyon branch, responsible for dozens of attacks and robberies, and marked by a crude ideology and domestic abuse within the group. We look back at far-left violence in the post-1968 era.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Moderate-Moderns https://booksandideas.net/Moderate-Moderns 2011-07-15T07:46:24Z text/html en John Zvesper Politics democracy liberalism May 68 <p>Who are the enemies of liberal democracy? Daniel Mahoney identifies them as modern totalitarians of the Left and the Right, but also as its immoderate friends: those who unwisely try to undermine modern democracy's foundations in Western political and cultural traditions, ignoring the fact that these very traditions are the essential foundations of modern democracy.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-1970s-Years-of-Politics https://booksandideas.net/The-1970s-Years-of-Politics 2011-02-02T08:02:10Z text/html en Xavier Vigna Society France social movement May 68 <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>Against the widespread view that links the post-‘68 period to hedonism, sociologist Lilian Mathieu paints a broad range of protest movements and offers an incisive political analysis. But this period is also of interest for understanding the present: a look at the recent past enables us to analyze today's social movements.</p>