A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on July 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. It may seem paradoxical that a porn star could arouse…
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…
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…
Absurd? Utopian? Not more so than “the two-state solution,” which has become a cynical trap advocated by hypocrites.
“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…
"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."
"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."
“What is Biden’s actual record? Will he be reelected simply because his name isn’t Trump?”
“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…
“Since arriving at the White House, Joe Biden has done nothing but marginalize his main rival in the Democratic Party.”
“Trump is morally and constitutionally illiterate—a vile plutocrat—but he is no evil genius.”
“That’s a loss for Americans, who, in any case, hardly know how to make a subtle or nuanced film anymore.”
“The former president is but a symptom of a deeper degradation in the body politic.”
As Arenas told me, “when something is cheap, someone somewhere is paying for it.”
“So much cruelty could have been avoided with a modicum of understanding of the realities of war.”
“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.”
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…
“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?”
“How to explain the Democrats’ sudden switch from free-trade dogma to free-trade restrictions?”
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…