Charles Devellennes
@cdevellennes.bsky.social
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Political and social theorist. Author, Commentator on French politics, Sunday philosopher. All views my own etc. https://charlesdevellennes.substack.com/
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I wrote a piece for Damage Magazine on why Bayrou's centrist gamble did not succeed. It lacked a fundamental ingredient of politics: imagination; and it lacked the ability to convince the French people to make this vision happen. You can read the full text here: damagemag.com/2025/09/17/t...
The Centrist Blackmail No Longer Works
On September 8th, François Bayrou became the first Prime Minister to have lost a confidence vote during the Fifth Republic. His demise is a clear indication that the centrist project lacks the imagina...
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My Positive Atheism book was reviewed recently by Ruggero Sciuto in French Studies. I wrote a short reply to the review, along with other thoughts, here: open.substack.com/pub/charlesd...
Positive atheism reviewed
A short response to Sciuto
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Speaking tomorrow at this conference in Vercelli on ‘Diderot in Tahiti’.
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I’ve taught Diderot’s Jacques the fatalist - though the narrator insists it’s not a novel. A great work on the subversion of social roles in the Enlightenment.
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My book, ‘The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract’, is now available in Korean! With a new preface for the translation. Thrilled to have received my copy, with a cracking new cover. @brisunipress.bsky.social
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Hit the nail on the head. A perverse incentives structure that needs to go.
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NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...
The UK’s academic recession is in full swing
This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers
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NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...
The UK’s academic recession is in full swing
This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers
www.ft.com
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This is a sad day for democracy. That one must defend the right of everyone to stand up for their beliefs, however distasteful we might find them, is a fundamental principle worth preserving. Democracy is stronger than its liberal critics allow.
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Whatever happened to the notion that, faced with the enemies of democracy, we should fight their ideas but, equally, for their right to express them? The answer, unfortunately, is that it died an ignominious death on Sunday, in Romania unherd.com/newsroom/lib...
Liberals should be outraged by Cǎlin Georgescu's election ban
Whatever happened to the notion that, faced with the enemies of democracy, we should fight their ideas but, equally, for their right to express them? The answer, unfortunately, is that it died an igno...
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Bayrou is accused of lying to MPs over a sexual scandal in his local Catholic school. What does this mean for laïcité and post-truth? I explore the latest here: open.substack.com/pub/charlesd...
Will yet another abuse scandal in the Catholic Church be Bayrou’s downfall?
On post-truth and the hypocrisy of laïcité
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I will be in Sciences Po Lille as professeur invité on the following three Mondays - 24/2, 3/3 and 10/3. If you're in Lille and want to grab a coffee, let me know!