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Charlie Hebdo

Inside the December Issue

by James Marcus,

Andrew Cockburn on the New Red Scare, Kiera Feldman on the right to choose in Rapid City, Fred Bahnson on feral faith in the age of climate change, and more

State of Emergency

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

"France's efforts to expand and enshrine the emergency laws in the constitution have created a sense that the legal framework of the French Republic, and all that it stands for, is under threat."

The President’s War

by John R. MacArthur,

"For the first three years of François Hollande's presidency, he was neither malicious nor dangerous. And yet, since the terrorist attack on the Bataclan, it’s been a whole different story."

Something to Cry About

by John R. MacArthur,

"I was confident the French weren’t going to follow the bad example from overseas and start a 'war on terror' à l’américaine. But November 13 changed the equation."

Introducing the January Issue

by Christopher Cox,

Alan Lightman, John Darnielle, Art Spiegelman, Anne Carson, and more.

A Legitimate Distinction

by Christopher Beha,

In defense of the PEN America Center's decision to give Charlie Hebdo its Freedom of Expression Courage Award

French Fiction Reveals Faux Democracy

by John R. MacArthur,

"Houellebecq, who is neither radical nor left-wing, understands perfectly France's political elites and its duped and disempowered electorate."

Clerical Oversight

by Andrew Cockburn,

The Jihadist leader no one wants to touch

America’s Peculiar Political Correctness

by John R. MacArthur,

“I don’t see how you can properly cover a news story without showing the reader or viewer one of the key elements that made the story a story ”

Weekly Review

by Elias Tezapsidis,

Boko Haram raids 16 villages in Nigeria, a bomb is detonated outside an NAACP office in Colorado, and a Muslim cleric bans snowmen.

The Art of Outrage

by Harper’s Magazine,

We defend Charlie Hebdo’s right to publish its cartoons—and our right to critique them.

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