When I first heard that the BBC was remaking Civilisation, the groundbreaking 1969 documentary in which esteemed art historian Kenneth…
DON’T LOOK NOW, but we just might be witnessing the tentative first steps toward the beginning of a mini-revolution in…
THE NUGATIOUS PRESIDENT of France, François Hollande, only one year into his five-year term, has again managed to raise Gallic…
IT WOULD BE hard to find a better symbol of the relative decline of American influence and the rise of…
After Barack Obama’s flop at the G20 last week in Saint Petersburg, where he failed to persuade a single leader…
WITH WELL-ARMED radical Islamist insurgents closing in last winter on Mali’s capital, Bamako, French President François Hollande suddenly decided to…
France is the land of great medieval cathedrals par excellence, and over the years they have awed me with their…
ONLY ONE YEAR INTO his presidency, François Hollande, France’s bland, indecisive, but stubbornly doctrinaire socialist leader, is already setting records….
April in Paris is supposed to be about chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees, warm embraces. Sometimes it…