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Category Archives: France
Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
The Paris Court of Appeal announced it would rule at 1:30 in the afternoon on July 7, 2026. The case concerned Marine Le Pen (b. 1968) and the misuse of European Parliament funds, but the man whose future hung on … Continue reading
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Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
In 1996, Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) went on French television to attack French television. The two lectures, published as On Television, made a claim that sounded like media criticism but was social theory. The journalistic field, he argued, enjoyed little autonomy. … Continue reading
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Marine Le Pen
The bomb went off at four in the morning on November 2, 1976. Twenty kilograms of dynamite had been stacked in the stairwell of the apartment building at 22 Villa Poirier, in the fifteenth arrondissement of Paris. The blast tore … Continue reading
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Guillaume Faye
Guillaume Faye came to Herndon, Virginia, in the last week of February 2006 as the imported prophet. The American Renaissance conference met that year in a hotel off the Dulles corridor, the kind of place built for airline crews and … Continue reading
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Alain de Benoist: A Biography
In January 1968, in Nice, about forty men met to found a research group. They were young, most of them veterans of losing causes. They had fought for French Algeria and lost. They had campaigned for Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour (1907-1989) in … Continue reading
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Éric Zemmour: A Biography
On November 30, 2021, a ten-minute video appeared on Éric Zemmour’s YouTube channel. He sat at a desk in a room dressed as a private library, dark shelves behind him, a brass lamp at his elbow, and before him a … Continue reading
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The French New Right: A History
The French New Right, or Nouvelle Droite, was not a conventional political party. It was an intellectual movement, a publishing network, and a metapolitical project. Its central claim was that political victories come after cultural victories. Before a movement can … Continue reading
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Roland Barthes: A Biography
On the afternoon of February 25, 1980, Roland Barthes (1915-1980) left a lunch in the Marais. François Mitterrand (1916-1996), then a candidate for the French presidency, had hosted a table of writers and intellectuals. The Socialist politician collected such men … Continue reading
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Jean Raspail: The Consul of Lost Causes
In the summer of 1971, a forty-six-year-old French travel writer borrows a villa at Boulouris on the Riviera, up the coast from Saint-Tropez. The house is built in the English seaside style of the late nineteenth century, with a carved … Continue reading
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Michel Houellebecq: A Life
On September 17, 2002, Michel Houellebecq (b. 1956) sat in the 17th chamber of the Palais de Justice in Paris, the courtroom France reserves for press offenses, and faced four Muslim organizations, the Mosque of Paris among them, plus the … Continue reading
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