A collection of 23 posts
The son of Nicolas Sarkozy on the riots, the rise of Marine Le Pen, and why he thinks France may have to burn before it can rebuild.
France’s protesters are rioting against austerity that doesn’t exist. Macron might as well give them the real thing.
The Islamist grandson of Hasan al-Banna convinced many Western liberals that he was a moderate because he promised to bridge a divide many feared could not be crossed.
An interview with Peggy Sastre.
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
A French criminal court ruling forbidding Marine Le Pen from contesting the 2027 presidential election could throw the country into turmoil.
In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground.
European leaders are struggling to cope with the multiple crises now facing the beleaguered continent.
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.
The Rassemblement National was thwarted by a coalition of convenience, but it remains the party with the largest grip on French voters.
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.
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.
During a recent dinner at the Élysée Palace, the French president was confronted with the possibility that France is slipping into murderous anarchy.
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.
The events at Sainte-Soline have received less attention from the international media than the pension-reform protests, but they are arguably more consequential.