Remember the images of May 1968 in France? Paris, 1968. The Sorbonne surrounded by barricades. On top of them, hundreds of young people. Is there anything that catches your attention? For me, the curious thing is the homogeneity: suits, ties, trench coats; all white faces. Those students were protesting against authoritarianism and, paradoxically, against the uniformity they themselves reflected.

The murder of theinfluencer The pro-Trump Charlie Kirk—be warned that the article does not focus on this specific fact—has led to the expressions "culture war" and "ideological war" being used interchangeably, both in the media and in other contexts. Do they mean the same thing? Obviously, they are related terms, but this does not mean that they are strictly interchangeable. This juxtaposition may seem unimportant, but in fact, it ends up leading to confusing analyses. Although, in my humble opinion, the concept of "culture war" is already foreshadowed between the lines in the first volume of The Decline of the West (1918) by Oswald Spengler, the expression "culture wars"It was popularized by sociologist James Davison Hunter in 1991. It's worth paying attention to the date: in the early 1990s, once real socialism had been shamefully dismantled, it was very difficult to talk about ideological confrontations: defending the virtues of Ceausescu or Enver Hoxha was very complicated. It implied it. In the United States, Republican and Democratic intellectuals began to fight over other things. As time went on, Steve Bannon, advisor to Donald Trump, said that what was at stake was not capitalism or the like, but "the soul of America," that is, its values in theme, national identity, the practice of religion or gender. The traditional ideological wars of the 20th century, on the other hand, were focused above all on the notion of political system and the economy. casus belli during the Cold War, and this is just one example among many others.

The White House has asked its embassies and consulates to temporarily suspend interviews with applicants to study in the United States and to stop granting appointment times for these interviews, according to a report published Tuesday. PoliticalThe newspaper claims that the move is in response to the Trump administration's intention to expand its scrutiny of the content posted on social media by all these aspiring students.