Joseph A. Harriss
Crisis reveals character. The French, a creative, artistic, and — by their own account — intelligent people, are not at…
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers By Richard McGregor (Harper, 302 pages, $27.99) The question is, how…
From the Champs-Elysées to Saint Germain des Près, the Bastille to posh Passy, Paris is the undisputed capital of girl…
Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine, and the End of France By Michael Steinberger (Bloomsbury, 256 pages, $25) We…
Living in Paris is one of our oldest traditions. It started in 1776 with Ben Franklin, who spent eight enjoyable…
PARIS — Sometimes life is just so darned unfair. Consider the case of Jacques René Chirac, who retired in May…
Flustered French parents hurriedly shooed their children away from the TV last week as a bland discussion program suddenly turned…
You probably remember: he was so unabashedly pro-American, he so admired our work ethic and free market capitalism, not to…
Did you hear the one about the lady who married the Eiffel Tower? No, really. Erika La Tour Eiffel had…
