Looking back on his time as a Cuban-trained communist revolutionary, the French writer Régis Debray recalled that Chile’s Marxist president used to display on his desk a photo of guerrilla leader Che Guevara, inscribed: “To Salvador Allende, who is headed to the same place by a different . . . . Continue Reading »
Once again, France’s army poses a political question. Continue Reading »
Le Chambon deserves to be remembered, and Sauvage’s Weapons of the Spirit is worthy viewing for Christians and non-Christians alike. Continue Reading »
Americans know little of Voltaire. French high-schoolers, by contrast, know him the way we once knew Thoreau and Whitman, before social justice eclipsed history as the rationale for our syllabi. Like America’s Liberty Bell, Voltaire’s tomb in Paris’s Panthéon is still visited by school groups . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholics across France have been meeting outside churches and civil buildings to demand the lifting of prohibitions on the public celebration of Mass. Continue Reading »
What is the relationship between France and the Muslim world inside and outside its borders? Continue Reading »
Marc Fumaroli was a rare figure: a Catholic intellectual who won the highest honors of European and American intellectual life while resisting its dominant trends. Continue Reading »
Most evenings I’d meet Daniel right in frontOf City Hall, to walk home for our mealOn Rue Domat, just westward of Rue Dante.We’d stroll across the bridges, always steal A glance at militaires patrolling thereIn threes (in Charlie Hebdo days), while highAbove the gardens and above the . . . . Continue Reading »
We gave ourselves over to the State long ago, according it sovereignty over our lives. Continue Reading »
Masses without the faithful will soon lead to a country without Masses. Continue Reading »
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