French Politics
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Who will be Macron’s dauphin?
And what does it mean to be the heir to Macronism anyway
The French disorder
France needs more realism about its social decay