Joseph A. Harriss

Skies are dark with chickens coming home to roost as the European Union faces its worst existential crisis since its…

At first, France’s Socialist Party leaders made a good show of being beside themselves with joy on August 23. A…

Two cheers for Marine Le Pen. The new president of France’s National Front party holds that the nation-state is the…

Ironically, his luck began to change that happy day two weeks ago in Paris when Dominique Strauss-Kahn took the wheel…

With policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic slashing public spending and searching for ways to reduce military budgets, the…

PARIS — You’ve got to hand it to France’s little big man, he has a way of getting what he…

Atheism is trendy — again. Over the centuries it periodically raises its ugly head, from the ancients like Epicurus and…

It was exactly 130 years ago this winter that the famous French diva made her long-awaited appearance in America. Thanks…

The euro, that artificial Funny Money used by 331 million Europeans in17 nations — the 17th, Estonia, joined the euro…

One of the more heroic feats of nearly 75 years of French socialism is to have made “work” a particularly…