Publisher’s Note

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on June 3, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. For some time now, I’ve been searching for the right…

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Eugene O’Neill’s genius lay in his dialogue.

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The Biden Administration has a selling point that is even less visible than the withdrawal from Afghanistan: the antitrust campaign by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission…

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Needless to say, the Russian dictator prefers Trump.

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Hitler committed high treason; Trump stuck with incitement.

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Absurd? Utopian? Not more so than “the two-state solution,” which has become a cynical trap advocated by hypocrites.

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“Of course, I advocate for ‘reality’ as much as possible, in the hope that exposure to violence, especially to the real consequences of war by way of brutal images that…

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"Zuckerberg fancies himself the pharaoh of the Web. He uses it to act beyond all regulatory limits, in defiance of national borders and democratic principles."

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"The new security perimeter at the Eiffel Tower, designed by architect Dietmar Feichtinger, is intended to be transparent—literally. But it is also a delusion."

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“What is Biden’s actual record? Will he be reelected simply because his name isn’t Trump?”

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“According to the neoliberal dogma of Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, American presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, everyone had something…

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“Since arriving at the White House, Joe Biden has done nothing but marginalize his main rival in the Democratic Party.”

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“A computer screen can act as a window on the world, but it can also lock you in a sort of monotonous and nonsensical prison.”

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America’s political and cultural divide is widening along with the gap between the ultrarich and everyone else.

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“Trump is morally and constitutionally illiterate—a vile plutocrat—but he is no evil genius.”

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“That’s a loss for Americans, who, in any case, hardly know how to make a subtle or nuanced film anymore.”

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“The former president is but a symptom of a deeper degradation in the body politic.”

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As Arenas told me, “when something is cheap, someone somewhere is paying for it.”

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“So much cruelty could have been avoided with a modicum of understanding of the realities of war.”

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“The damage done to Kyiv and Mariupol is visible to the naked eye, but many other horrors continue in the shadows when a big crisis takes over the media.”

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While I am one of the critics who saw NATO expansion into former Soviet bloc countries as a dangerous provocation to Vladimir Putin, I’m stunned by his savagery, and by…

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“The barbarians of January 6 clearly had no idea what they wanted to achieve. It was a matter of fierce resentment boiling over—what philosopher Jacques Rancière calls ‘shared hating.’”

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“How best to respond to the threat from the extreme right, given the sudden rise of Zemmour, whose level of support verges on 14 percent?”

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“I’m sure a good number of people found that scene to be amusing and saw Biden’s little doze as an apt illustration of the President’s difficulties in achieving his aims.”

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“How to explain the Democrats’ sudden switch from free-trade dogma to free-trade restrictions?”

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I would have preferred those few moments of silent reflection to be multiplied by ten, if only to encourage the political and media leadership to shut up and think about…

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“Would Henri Alleg’s La question have been published—would it have seen the light of day—without Jérôme Lindon’s moral fortitude?“

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The United States must decide who gets left behind

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