Justice or a Democratic Scandal?
A French criminal court ruling forbidding Marine Le Pen from contesting the 2027 presidential election could throw the country into turmoil.
John Lloyd
· 6 min read
France
A collection of 18 posts
The Hard and Soft New Right
In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
Fragile Europe, On Its Own
European leaders are struggling to cope with the multiple crises now facing the beleaguered continent.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Return of the Jesuits
In the 22nd instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu used their nascent Quebec colony as a means to promote French global power and spread Christianity.
Greg Koabel
· 20 min read
A Question of Legitimacy
The Rassemblement National was thwarted by a coalition of convenience, but it remains the party with the largest grip on French voters.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics
For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality.
Alan S. Rome
· 13 min read
Champlain Gives It Another Go
In the twelfth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s halting efforts to create a permanent Canadian settlement in the early 1600s.
Greg Koabel
· 30 min read
The Threat of Decivilisation
During a recent dinner at the Élysée Palace, the French president was confronted with the possibility that France is slipping into murderous anarchy.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Up the St. Lawrence
In the fifth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Jacques Cartier’s first encounters with the Mi’kmaq and Iroquois.
Greg Koabel
· 23 min read
The Battle of Sainte-Soline
The events at Sainte-Soline have received less attention from the international media than the pension-reform protests, but they are arguably more consequential.
Robert Zaretsky
· 6 min read
A Fracture Revealed, Not Healed
As the scale of her defeat in the Presidential election was announced, Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National (RN), was quick to gloss it. “Millions of our compatriots,” she declared (in a speech that must have been prepared for weeks), “have chosen the national camp and change,” and
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Macron Will Have to Do
A decent and competent Left might point out that France stands to gain exactly nothing from an “alliance” with Putin’s dictatorship proposed by the likes of Le Pen.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
At 400, Molière Still Matters
Over the years, Le Tartuffe ou l’Imposteur has been one my favorite Molière plays to study and direct with my undergraduate students at Princeton University. I find it to be the best point of origin from which to discover his body of work. As often with Molière, the plot
Florent Masse
· 12 min read
Zemmour’s Final Word
The danger—or opportunity, depending on your view—is that two radical candidates like Mélenchon and Zemmour win the first round.
RJ Smith
· 10 min read
Europe's New Beggars
An elite discourse condones destructive behavior and reinterprets a denigrating hand-to-mouth existence as an alternative lifestyle
Johan Wennström
· 9 min read