The specter of the beheaded teacher Samuel Paty continues to haunt France’s public education system, which the prime minister deems under threat from Islamist infiltration. Each provocation by Muslim students reminds teachers in France of the fate of Samuel Paty,…
Among the least pressing problems facing Washington these days is what to do with all our neglected NeoCons now that Donald Trump has seized the Republican Party and decisively evicted them from their chosen home. They are still rattling around…
Translator’s Note: France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, will not say there will never be French troops — or NATO troops — on the ground in Ukraine. This is common sense, and, to take a line from commentators in the U.S. who…
A new cathedral spire has finally emerged from scaffolding nearly four years after flames engulfed Paris’s storied Notre Dame Cathedral in April 2019. Intense reconstruction efforts began immediately following the accidental blaze, which investigators attributed to either an electrical short-circuit…
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, sent a message to a large crowd — over 100,000 people, according to the Associated Press — who marched Sunday against anti-Semitism. The march was called by parliamentary leaders alarmed at a sharp spike in…
Last Wednesday, while thousands of migrants set fire to the streets in France for the second night in a row, Emmanuel Macron was dancing at an Elton John concert. There is no better image to define the situation in Europe….
Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète By Bérengère Bonte (L’Archipel, 240 pages, $28) There’s no better promotional vehicle than controversy and scandal. Given this, journalist Bérengère Bonte’s timely provocative book about France’s current prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète (Élisabeth Borne, the…
The scene of a wretch stabbing babies in their strollers in a playground will stay with us for a long time. Out of disgust, out of horror, out of impotence, out of shame. I will not be so simplistic as…
Too many politicians are thespians. When there’s a conflict — as there often is — between appearing to solve problems and actually helping to solve those problems, politicians can almost always be counted on to put appearance over substance. Unfortunately,…
