France’s Electoral Abyss
France is not alone as it witnesses the power of democratic futility and indifference.
France is not alone as it witnesses the power of democratic futility and indifference.
Emmanuel Macron has bucked a French political law of silence but shows no inclination to do anything about the truth exposed.
Coining a meaningless term and passing it off as a cause to defend has become a feature of political hyperreality.
Emmanuel Macron awarded the prestigious Legion of Honor medal to Egypt’s dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during a state visit last week.
Obsessed with the 2022 election, a clueless Emmanuel Macron has been sucked into a vortex of his own creation.
Emmanuel Macron’s concern with the crisis of Islam is provoking a crisis at home.
In France, the “clash of ignorance” can no longer be used as an excuse to hide the clash of truths between radical secularism and Muslims refusing to kill God for Marianne.
The French president sees himself as the righteous defender of Enlightenment ideals for people living in the dark.
France is struggling with the status of religion, but so are some of the Fair Observer’s most prestigious contributors.
Minorities are fleeing Muslim countries and radical Islamists are taking to the sword, raising a critical question about Islam’s ability to secularize.
France is struggling with the sacred principle of freedom of speech as it deals with murder as a means of expression.
In the land of Voltaire and Diderot, Montaigne and Pascal, Sartre and Camus, public debate has either had a very high cultural status or been seriously repressed by royal or pseudo-royal authority.
Not knowing the truth opens the door to any number of political theories about how the truth is managed.
Could the global mobilization in the face of the coronavirus pandemic presage a turning point in our economic and political culture?
Emmanuel Macron, the former Rothschild banker, puts forward a program worthy of a democratic socialist as he reacts to the COVID-19 pandemic.