Notre-Dame, France’s Parish
by Samuel GreggIt’s hard to imagine a harder psychological blow to France than the immolation of Notre-Dame. Continue Reading »
A Certain Idea of France
by Peter HitchensDe Gaulle by julian jackson harvard, 928 pages, $39.95 Using pick handles and rifle butts, the police force of one of the world’s most civilized countries surrounded and savagely beat hundreds of dark-skinned men. They then threw them into the beautiful river that flows through a city celebrated . . . . Continue Reading »
Julien Green’s Vatican II
by Paul DeanSeveral years ago, I came across some odd volumes of the journal of Julien Green in a Paris secondhand shop. I had never heard of him, but a few minutes’ browsing convinced me not only to buy the books but to track down the others—which proved to be nineteen volumes altogether. (Even . . . . Continue Reading »
The Contradictions of Liberal Globalism
by John William SullivanOur globalist liberal elites are no longer fit to govern. They are decadent and out-of-touch. Continue Reading »
Protest of the Provinces
by Nathan PinkoskiThe Fifth Republic has only been successful when its president has both embodied noblesse oblige and sustained its populist element. Continue Reading »
Understanding Marion Maréchal
by Nathan PinkoskiSince the 1980s, the French left and right have formed a front républicain or cordon sanitaire to keep the Front national (FN) out of power. When Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter Marine took over the party in 2011, she understood that the only road to electoral success . . . . Continue Reading »
State Irreligion
by Marcel ProustWhen one is delivered from a duty, one is less free. Continue Reading »
Raw Stuff
by Jude RussoThe End of Eddyby édouard louistranslated by michael luceyfarrar, straus and giroux, 208 pages, $23 Liberal regimes defend their power in the name of freedom and progress. The end of the family wage is the classic example: A great feminist triumph, it “freed” women to swell the labor force, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Heroism of Arnaud Beltrame
by Jean-Baptiste, crmdArnaud Beltrame was convinced that an ideology could not be fought simply with weapons and computers. Continue Reading »
Shunning the Disabled
by J. D. FlynnMore than 90 percent of French children prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted. Now the French government has decided the mere sight of children with Down syndrome on television is an unhappy intrusion on the national conscience. Continue Reading »
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