Articles

How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard

Suspense without passion is France's strange electoral mood for the moment. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's advisers are both perturbed and fundamentally optimistic.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Only a Beginning… Only a Beginning…

Nothing is over but the counting and not even that. In the last two Sundays of June, Frenchmen will return to the polls, and François Mitterrand will invite them to confirm ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Mitterrand Redux Mitterrand Redux

Mitterrand can make it. He is, undoubtedly, the winner of the first round in the French presidential election.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Socialism and the Soviet Bloc Socialism and the Soviet Bloc

Readers may recall the shocked grief and revulsion of Alyosha Karamazov as he discovered that the corpse of his saintly master, Father Zossima, was stinking.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism

Is Europe, like Britain, swinging to the right? Whatever the answer, the State Department need not be haunted, for the time being, by the ghost of Eurocommunism.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Unto Every One That Hath Unto Every One That Hath

EQUALITY.By John Rees.Praeger Publishers. I52 p p . $5.

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

The Big Non! The Big Non!

Paris

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Election ’95–Fractured France Election ’95–Fractured France

The miracle did not happen. Dynamics, as Lionel Jospin had hoped, did not defeat arithmetic. On his third try, Jacques Chirac made it. The Socialist interlude is over.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Ghosts of May The Ghosts of May

Today the cobblestones of Paris's Latin Quarter are covered with asphalt.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Hate in a Warm Climate Hate in a Warm Climate

He came, he threatened, but he didn't conquer. The French Riviera will not be the first important region in Europe to be ruled by neofascists.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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