What orients the publication

1. 01Principle

   Human dignity

   Each person as an end in themselves. Dignity precedes any law and any circumstantial majority; it requires effective conditions —education, work, health, freedom of conscience— without which formal rights become rhetoric.

2. 02Principle

   Liberal democracy

   A way of organizing public life on protected individual rights, separation of powers, freedom of the press and of expression, alternation in office and pluralism. A fragile architecture sustained only by attentive citizenship and well-kept institutions.

3. 03Principle

   Republic and rule of law

   Law above the will of whoever governs; separation of powers as the condition of freedom. Institutions are not obstacles to popular will: they are its stable form.

4. 04Principle

   Political and intellectual freedom

   Freedom to think, to publish, to criticize, to be wrong. The journal understands it less as the absence of coercion than as the effective capacity to take part in public conversation.

5. 05Principle

   Pluralism

   Honest recognition that in a free society reasonable —and sometimes incompatible— conceptions of the good coexist. The democratic task is to build a common space where that diversity can argue without destroying itself.

6. 06Principle

   Equality before the law

   No exceptions for hierarchy, origin or proximity to power. It is the institutional floor from which any other discussion of justice becomes possible.

7. 07Principle

   Institutions and public responsibility

   Delegated authority implies a duty to account. Institutions are not scenery: they are the form in which a society remembers what it promised itself.

8. 08Principle

   Civic culture and solidarity

   A democracy is measured less by its formal procedures than by the quality of daily ties between those who inhabit it: respect for the other, care for the shared space, willingness to argue.

9. 09Principle

   Common good

   Not as abstraction or slogan, but as a constant reference: the question of what cannot be left to the simple aggregation of private interests.

10. 10Principle

    Critique of authoritarianism

    Of any sign. The journal discusses contemporary democratic erosions with the same care it brings to the totalitarian experiences of the twentieth century.

These principles are discussed with the journal — not imposed as dogma. To add a voice to the debate, write to us from contact.