Articles

France, Racism and the Left France, Racism and the Left

Paris

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Politics and the Pity The Politics and the Pity

"We are all German Jews" chanted 50,000 Frenchmen at the gates of the Bastille in 1968; I was recently reminded of this episode, which has become revolutionary lore, when Holocau...

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

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 8: O. J. Simpson sits in Superior Court in Los Angeles 08 December 1994 during an open court session where Judge Lance Ito denied a media attorney's request to open court transcripts from a 07 December private meeting involving prospective jurors. Final selection of alternate jurors by attorneys in the double murder case is expected later this afternoon. (Photo credit should read POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

America and the Simpson Trial America and the Simpson Trial

This article originally appeared in the March 13, 1995 issue.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams

Le Pen’s Pals–Blood and Soil Le Pen’s Pals–Blood and Soil

There are two unmistakable signs that France is entering a pre-electoral period: The government is once again tinkering with the electoral law and the politicians, particularly t...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Does the Left Have a Future? Does the Left Have a Future?

With the Soviet model shattered forever, it is the social democratic one that is now in deep crisis in Western Europe. On the face of it, judging just by the results of June's Eu...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Supping With the French Devil Supping With the French Devil

Cartoonists can beat journalists at their own game of first oversimplifying and then exaggerating.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

La Peste La Peste

Paris

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Sound and the Furet The Sound and the Furet

History may not have come to a stop in 1989, but the public is still under the spell of the counterpoint in Francis Fukuyama's famous exercise in propaganda: Capitalism is eterna...

Jan 1, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Too Hot to Handle Too Hot to Handle

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Nov 10, 1997 / Column / Bill McKibben

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