France’s Perpetual State of Emergency
The country's extraordinary anti-terrorism measures are on the way to becoming entirely ordinary.
David Bosco
Rosa Brooks
Thanassis Cambanis
Elizabeth Dickinson
Laurie Garrett
Kim Ghattas
Julia Ioffe
Leela Jacinto
Whitney Kassel
Jeffrey Lewis
Aaron David Miller
Suzanne Nossel
Thomas E. Ricks
David Rothkopf
Kori Schake
Emile Simpson
James Stavridis
Bruce Stokes
James Traub
Stephen M. Walt
Lauren Wolfe
Michela Wrong
Micah Zenko
Frexit Is Coming
Britain's departure meant the end of an era. France's departure would mean the end of the EU.
Does French Soccer Have an Arab Problem?
As Euro 2016 kicks off, the French national team is once again facing questions over just which France it represents.
France’s Socialist Game of Trônes
Winter is coming for François Hollande, and a cast of outsiders is vying for the party’s iron throne.
How French Secularism Became Fundamentalist
A militant form of laïcité has taken hold in France, backed by everyone from intellectuals to government officials. Is this what the republic’s founders envisioned?
France’s John Kasich Is Winning
Once dismissed as an out-of-touch technocrat, Alain Juppé has reinvented himself as France's voice of moderation — and the French love him for it.
I Resign, Therefore I Am
Justice Minister Christiane Taubira didn’t just quit -- she tweeted goodbye, published a 94-page philosophical pamphlet, and dropped the mic on France’s rightward lurch.
#PrayforParis, Vote for Moi
With just weeks until an election that could change the direction of the republic, France’s politicians have wasted no time turning tragedy into talking points.
A Moat Defensive
It’s just 25 miles from Calais to Dover. But for Britain, the Channel has always been the distance between the “swarms” and English civilization.
François Hollande and the Beanstalk
France's president hoped that the eurozone crisis could shoot him to new political heights -- or at least get him re-elected. But the moral of this fable might be closer to home than he realizes.
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About Robert Zaretsky
Robert Zaretsky is a professor of history at the University of Houston's Honors College. His most recent book is Boswell's Enlightenment.
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