Sleeping Beauty – la belle au bois dormant
Paris has suddenly woken up, after a couple of years of shuttered R&R.
“Quand les Cartes Postales se Croisent” (When Postcards Cross)
Under these imaginative circumstances I can move around Paris with impunity, unlike my friends and neighbors.
Running in Place
Was Progress, the ambition of a society to, well, improve itself, only a brief historical phenomenon that has faded like the Cheshire Cat, leaving us only a jaundiced grin (or a yellow vest)?…
An Angry Shade of Blue in France’s (Real) Great Debate
And so the circle draws a notch tighter around the question of national identity.
Starting Next Month, How Will the World Spell Europe?
Since when has blanket opposition become so much more attractive in democracies than, well, the work of thinking things through?