Joseph A. Harriss
The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency By David Marsh (Yale University Press, 352 Pages, $35) Imagine, if you can, that the federal government abolishes the dollar. Just does it because our betters have determined, in their wisdom,…
First of all, let’s get one thing straight: I am not the father of Rachida Dati’s new baby. Admittedly that disclaimer might be superfluous, because of all the many names mentioned since the birth of Zohra, mine is not yet…
White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard By Daniel Johnson (Houghton Mifflin, 384 pages, $26) With its virtually limitless possible moves and combinations, chess has meant many things to players since it appeared…
The glory days of anti-Americanism may have been in the 1970s, when marchers filled the streets of every European capital to protest against “neo-colonial imperialism,” but that pernicious virus is still very much with us. And not necessarily where you…
I know — old Paris hands keep going on, ad nauseam, about how much better things used to be. Paree was really Paree, with a jaunty beret on every head, a baguette under every arm, a red-scarfed accordion player in…
IT WAS a balmy spring evening in Paris and, as a young correspondent in the Time bureau, I was sent over to the Latin Quarter to cover another student demonstration. These things were such a standard part of Left Bank…
Universe of Stone: a Biography of Chartres Cathedral By Philip Ball (Harper, 322 pages, $27.95) Reviewed by Joseph A. Harriss On the night of June 10, 1194, the people of Chartres awoke to see flames and smoke billowing from the…
This review appears in the May 2008 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.
This article appears in the November 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here. PARIS — The French revel in their complications despite the frequent inconvenience of getting tangled in them. For one…
This review appears in the February 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (The Penguin Press, 415 pages, $25.95) The writer who takes on…
