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Emmanuel Macron

French Lessons

The optimists went to the gas chambers (or so it’s been said). The pessimists went to America. The collabos went to Maxim’s (for steak). The orphans went to the country…

Triangulation

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

As of this writing, the United States, which has 4.2 percent of the world’s population, accounts for nearly 30 percent of total COVID-19 mortalities. Among Americans, a common response to…

A Play with No End

by Christopher Ketcham,

What the Gilets Jaunes really want

Who Are Those Damned Yellow French?

by Jean-Philippe Immarigeon,Translated by Madison Mainwaring,

“Who, save for the little barons of Wall Street, believes in the progressive virtues of capitalism?”

The New Nonalignment

by John R. MacArthur,

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on June 5, 2017. Translated from the French by John Cullen. Normally, I wouldn’t applaud the audacious rhetoric of a…

Fantasy Beats Reality

by John R. MacArthur,

The French election