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Apr 11, 2025, 6:08 PM

Michaël de Saint-Cheron Interview | Alex Gilbert #273

Michaël de Saint-Cheron (Wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

Michaël de Saint-Cheron, french philosopher of religions and leading expert on André Malraux, participated in a tribute to Resistance heroes Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Pierre Brossolette, Germaine Tillion, and Jean Zay at the Panthéon and published Les Sept palais célestes...

Apr 6, 2025, 3:42 PM

Peter Trawny Interview | Alex Gilbert #272

Derzeitiger Herausgeber der Heidegger-Gesamtausgabe Peter Trawny. Foto: Jens Grossmann

Peter Trawny, involved in the scholarly edition of Martin Heidegger’s collected works, is a German philosopher and professor at the University of Wuppertal. How can Heidegger’s narrative interpretation of Van Gogh’s “Peasant Shoes” in The Origin of the Work...

Apr 1, 2025, 3:04 PM

Olivier Samuel Interview | Alex Gilbert #271

Olivier Samuel is a religious association administrator at the Israelite Consistory of Bas-Rhin A word for Jean Kahn, former president of the Israelite Consistory of Bas-Rhin ? Olivier Samuel: My grandfather was close to Jean Kahn. We are the heirs to...

Apr 1, 2025, 11:06 AM

Rudy Reichstadt Interview | Alex Gilbert #270

Rudy Reichastadt (@copyright authorized)

Conspiracy Watch chasing conspiracists, Holocaust deniers and antisemites was founded by Rudy Reichstadt in 2007. He published L'Opium des imbéciles : essai sur la question complotiste (2019) and Au cœur du complot, (2023). In 2014, Marine Le Pen stated: "The...

Mar 29, 2025, 12:03 AM

Philippe Kong Interview | Alex Gilbert #269

Philippe Kong (@copyright authorized)

Philippe Kong is a psychoanalyst. What's bipolarity? Philippe Kong: Bipolarity is an American invention, rooted in their DSM. They seek to frame mood as having two distinct phases—bipolar, binary, if you will. Human mood, in their view, is reduced to...

Mar 12, 2025, 9:30 PM

Jean-Marc Dreyfus Interview | Alex Gilbert #268

Jean-Marc Dreyfus (@JMD)

French historian Jean-Marc Dreyfus published The Petiot Affair and the Holocaust (Grasset) in 2025. The US Congress revisited Credit Suisse’s Nazi accounts in Argentina post-UBS acquisition, the 30th largest financier of nuclear weapons. Could you share insights on your work...

Mar 1, 2025, 10:33 PM

Gérard Bensussan Interview | Alex Gilbert #267

Gérard Bensussan (Wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

Gérard Bensussan is a philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg. He will publish Des Sadiques au cœur pur. Sur l’antisionisme contemporain (Hermann) in March, referencing Sartre: “The antisemite is a sadist with a pure heart.” Is Colonialism...

Feb 26, 2025, 11:42 PM

Volodymyr Yermolenko Interview | Alex Gilbert #266

Volodymyr Yermolenko (@Valentyn Kuzan)

Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher, journalist and editor in chief of UkraineWorld.org, published Ukraine in Histories and Stories in 2020 and Eros and Psyche: Love and culture in Europe, in 2023. Could you share an update on your book with Tetyana...

Feb 22, 2025, 1:11 AM

UBS financing Nuclear weapons with Nazi Gold

UBS Building, New York City (Wikipedia CY BB 4.0)

Recent bipartisan investigation by the U.S. Senate Budget Committee has revealed new extensive evidence of previously undisclosed Nazi-linked accounts at Credit Suisse, spearheaded by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and long-standing pattern of obstruction by the...

Feb 6, 2025, 7:55 PM

Gérard Bensussan Interview | Alex Gilbert #265

Gérard Bensussan (Wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

An Endless Tragedy In his poignant column in Le Monde dated October 5, my colleague and longtime friend Jacob Rogozinski speaks of his "shame of being Jewish" after October 7, 2023, and the war in Gaza. He also believes that...

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Alexandre Gilbert is the director of the Chappe gallery.