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Alain Finkielkraut

Alain Finkielkraut is a professor of philosophy at the Institute of Technology and host of radio show Répliques of the French public radio station France-Culture. Resolutely Zionist and polemicist by nature, he has a great audience in France. Author of La Défaite de la pensée.

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“Barbarians at the gate”

by Alain Finkielkraut

16 December 2005

To see riots reduced to their social level is what is wanted in France. That is, to see a revolt of the young people of the outlying zones against the situation in which they live, against the discrimination they suffer and against unemployment. However, the problem is that most of the young (…)