Undoubtedly Opinion, in its prodigious versatility, has already moved on to something else. But just the same I want to return to the strange experience my friend Jean-Baptiste Descroix-Vernier just had -- he who was ultimately responsible for the ...
In accepting a win by cheating, France is permanently compromising its reputation and its image abroad. It will not be easy to soften the severity of the comments that we are currently hearing. So much the more so because we have the reputation as ...
And seen from here in New York, in the couple of newspapers that still cover French debates, it borders on the grotesque. On one hand, we hear of a French identity in peril. We have a minister of national identity and immigration (ah -- this "and"...no ...
We are in the process of constructing a new myth: that of the "fall-of-the-wall-that-no one-predicted." That no one knew the exact moment it would happen, yes, of course. That the playing out of the episode itself, the chain of causes and circumstances ...
Time is passing. And Roman Polanski is still in prison, goes to bed and wakes up in prison, sees his wife one hour a week in the visiting room of a prison -- all while his 11 and 16-year-old children, when they have the courage to go to school, have to ...
Marine Le Pen wasn't enough: the young Socialist Guard, Benoît Hamon in the lead, had to rush to the aid of the new moral order that, for the past two weeks, seems to be turning the heads that one thought immune to the morally correct dear to our ...
It is said that Obama has received the Nobel Peace Prize without having any concrete accomplishments. To the contrary, in his eight months in office he has worked for peace in very concrete ways. Take the race question in the United States, still a ...
Sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl is obviously a serious crime. And being an artistic genius never constituted, for any crime, an attenuating circumstance. Having said that, and considering the wave of madness currently sweeping the country, we ...
Apprehended like a common terrorist Saturday evening, September 26, as he came to receive a prize for his entire body of work, Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. My journal, La Règle du jeu, is working in support of Roman Polanski and mobilizing ...
The election of the Director General of UNESCO has entered its last phase. And the designation of the Egyptian Farouk Hosni, thought to be a given just a few weeks ago, seems to be less assured than previously believed. Three rounds of voting haven't ...
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