High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pierre-André Taguieff (born 1946 in Paris, France) is a philosopher, historian and political economist, and director of research at CNRS (in an Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) laboratory, the CEVIPOF). He is the author of many essays in sociology, mainly concerning the questions of racism, racialism (or "scientific racism"), antisemitism and historical revisionism. He is also well known for his studies on populism (arguing that this political attitude should be considered as a "political style") and the Front national. He is also part of the Cercle de l'Oratoire think tank.