Joseph A. Harriss
Bardolaters are enjoying a movable feast in this 450th anniversary year of William Shakespeare’s birth. It began appropriately enough in…
Who says there’s anything wrong with the European Union? I mean, apart from the fact that it’s founded on little…
France’s pseudo-bolshevikian government has discovered a new problem in urgent need of a socialist solution: what to do about women….
President François Hollande, France’s most unpopular leader in the 56-year history of the Fifth Republic, has just been slapped upside…
France’s reputation for a relaxed attitude toward sex has long fed the world’s public opprobrium—and its secret fantasies. Mark Twain…
To understand Europe’s confused, conflicted reaction to Vladimir Putin’s brazen grab of real estate in its own back yard, look…
You never really expect state visits to produce concrete results, and this week’s trip to the U.S. by French President…
And to think they called him limp, soft, flaccid. The nickname behind his back was Flanby, a popular gelatinous French…
Out of nowhere this autumn, the sunny little Provençal town of Brignoles (pop. 17,000) became the most famous place most…
