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Category Archives: France
The Albert Camus Show
Albert Camus (1913-1960) speaks French with the accent of Algiers, not Paris. He grows up poor in Belcourt, a working-class quarter of the colonial capital, raised by a nearly deaf mother of Spanish descent who can barely read. That world … Continue reading
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Edgar Morin and the Revolt Against Fragmentation
Edgar Morin (1921-2026) ranks among the last universal intellectuals that twentieth-century Europe produced. He worked as a sociologist, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, media theorist, filmmaker, and public commentator, and he refused to let any one of those titles claim him. For … Continue reading
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Jews & The Guardianship Question In France, Germany, Italy, Holland
America. The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Alliance Theory France’s relationship between religion, culture, and intellectual life has been organized around laïcité, the radical secularism institutionalized after the Revolution and consolidated in the … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of France Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full diplomatic and presidential throttle in the Élysée Palace, the Quai d’Orsay, the Économie Ministry, and the nuclear-strategy rooms right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign grinding into its second month, Khamenei martyred, Iranian … Continue reading
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Pierre-Édouard Stérin Says The Quiet Part Out Loud – He Wants To Be A Saint
The New York Times reports: The Billionaire Funding France’s Far Right Pierre-Édouard Stérin is financing projects to make France less Muslim, more Catholic and more capitalist. He says his program has trained thousands running for municipal office on Sunday. The … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for France’s Master Institutions
France’s high-status actors do not compete for power by openly claiming it. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as republican, rational, and necessary for the nation. This is the core insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. … Continue reading
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The French Revolution
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory explains the French Revolution as a catastrophic elite coalition collapse, not a spontaneous uprising of the masses. Old Regime France was held together by a rigid alliance between the crown, the high nobility, and the Church. … Continue reading
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The Age Of Le Pen
Christopher Caldwell writes for the Claremont Review of Books: * [Jean Marie] Le Pen died in January at age 96, two weeks before Trump returned to office. Half a century ago, Le Pen called for an uprising against a dawning … Continue reading
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France Faces A Camp Of The Saints Invasion From Africa (7-2-23)
01:00 CROB: Mass immigration’s self-destructive effects, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14900602:00 CROB: Ungovernable France: A divided country lurches toward nationalism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14901108:00 The Camp of the Saints, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tjK4R-1HM10:30 COLIN LIDDELL: “SUICIDE BY COP TRIGGERED THE FRENCH RIOTS”, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2023/07/colin-liddell-suicide-by-cop-triggered.htmlCrime and the Democrats, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14902241:00 Ron DeSantis released … Continue reading
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CROB: Ungovernable France: A divided country lurches toward nationalism
Christopher Caldwell writes: A number of things are converging to make French people decidedly uneasy about immigration. Africa is going to double in population in the next generation, to 2.5 billion. That’s about a billion more people than the continent … Continue reading
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