A few days before the first round of the French presidential election, which in effect serves as a primary inasmuch as the different factions of left, right, and center compete for the chance to represent their blocs in the runoff,…
Former pundit Éric Zemmour seems to be on the losing side in the civil war tearing apart the hard-right in France. According to the polls, National Assembly member Marine Le Pen will thrash him in the first round of the…
How important is the fact that Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, grew up speaking Russian in a Russophone city, Kryvyi, where at school he likely as not was called Vladimir? The Dnieper River that more or less bisects the Russian…
There’s a gleeful sense of crisis — and an underlying sense of panic — in the White House these days. Biden’s popularity polls show he’s as unpopular as his Great Satan — Donald Trump — was at his worst moments….
President Biden’s foreign policy initiatives have been consistently disastrous. From giving the Russians an extension to the New START Treaty on their terms to his pursuit of renewal of Obama’s nuclear weapons deal with Iran and his debacle in Afghanistan…
“The Health Pass will never be a right of access that discriminates among the French. It cannot be made compulsory for access to everyday places,” pledged French president Emmanuel Macron in April of 2021. President Macron made this statement as…
I would love to see our politicians spend the summer reading Adam Smith, G. K. Chesterton, and H. L. Mencken. But I know that most of them think that books are only good for balancing tables or, for the intellectuals…
The French parliament voted Monday to require COVID-19 vaccine passports to participate in public life. The policy is even stricter for health-care workers. France joins a growing list of countries to pass COVID passport legislation and to receive pushback from…
Sometimes the people you help the most are the most ungrateful. During World War II Americans left the security of their own continent and helped save Western Europe from both Adolf Hitler’s Germany and Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union. In doing…
