Gladiator alumni Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix will reunite to portray another one of history’s greatest military geniuses: Napoleon. And, like its titular character in the trailer says, he and the movie promise to be “brilliant successes.” Apple TV dropped…
I hope that every American Spectator reader will take the time to read and ponder Carina Benton’s wonderful analysis of the French riots. She provides an excellent summary of the deterioration of public order in France over the last several…
The inflammable cocktail of immigration, crime, real or alleged racism, hard-handed police tactics, and fiery left-wing politicians is again exploding in France’s face. Never before, however, has the c-word — “civil war” — been bandied about so openly. Poor France….
Anyone curious about what a “diversity-is-our-strength” infusion looks like has only to glance across the Atlantic at the rioting unfolding in France. Evidently, the widespread looting and destruction of property, the assault of a mayor and his family, and the…
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,…
Gen. Bernard W. Rogers died on Oct. 27, 2008, after serving our country for over 47 years. He served honorably and valiantly through three wars and rose to become chief of staff of the Army, lead the U.S. European Command,…