The failure of Marine Le Pen
And the surprising success of Emmanuel Macron
France
Wednesday
Tuesday
Marine Le Pen takes on the king of Europe
The French election is down to her and Macron, with high stakes for the rest of the world
Wednesday
Is France set for another Le Pen-Macron showdown?
The incumbent’s victory is not yet in the bag
Sunday
The heady reds of Avignon
The big three grapes in a typical Châteauneuf-du-Pape are Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre
Wednesday
The art of the Covid protest song
They are angry at vaccines mandates, vaccine passports, but mostly at government highhandedness
Monday
Kudos to Macron for going to Moscow
Americans demand that Europe take charge of its own defense yet chide the French for doing just that?
Monday
The other Camus
The gay past of the alt-right’s French guru
Saturday
The joie de vivre of Emily in Paris
It’s a charming escape from all the virtue-signaling and haranguing — which is why the elite critics hate it
Sunday
Antony Blinken’s soundtrack to failure
Biden’s secretary of state has released his Spotify playlist and its invitations to weakness are many
Friday
Why we keep getting North Korea wrong
As bizarre as Kim can sound sometimes, he appears to know where Washington’s red-lines are
Wednesday
Is woke Notre-Dame the future of Christianity?
The torched cathedral is being given a coat of secular modernist paint
Wednesday
WATCH: Kamala Harris adopts bizarre French accent in Paris
The French were already mystified as to what Harris is doing in Paris
Tuesday
Kamala in Paris
America’s most undiplomatic politician heads to France to unwind a diplomatic faux pas
Wednesday
The foreign policy amateur
So far Biden has alienated allies and layered on the bureaucracy — what next?
Tuesday
Biden’s big UN whopper
He says America doesn’t want to fight ‘the wars of the past’, but we still are
Sunday
Ticking off the French was strategic genius
America used a submarine deal to send a message to the freeloading Europeans
Sunday
Why European criticism of the US Afghanistan pullout is so refreshing
If the Europeans want to check our power — rather than just complain about it — they need to show that they can
Wednesday
A taste of heresy
The weight of history — a seemingly infinite vista of incident — hangs heavy in the Languedoc in the South of France
Saturday
Abolishing museums serves nobody
Activist demands will destroy museums — and make us all poorer
Thursday
A belated check from President Biden
It seems ludicrous that I, living in the south of France, should be able to restock my wine cellar at the largesse of the Treasury
