Emmanuel Macron

Why the French are Striking

by Moshik Temkin

Brits and Americans commonly refer to French protests as a form of national sport, which obscures the serious retrenchment of the welfare state that President Macron is seeking to oppose, and trivializes opposition to the changes. 

When Will the French Dam Against the Far Right Crack?

by Brian Sandberg

Macron is the latest representative of the French center to call for an electoral coalition to act as a "dam" against the far right. In another French presidential election, the dam has held, but will it endure? 

To Save la République, Macron Can't Ignore the Left

by Moshik Temkin

Macron's centrist strategy in the face of a rising far right is dangerous, but reflects the long turn to the center by the Socialist Party. Can he expect left-leaning constituencies to once again vote to save France from fascism while getting nothing in return? 

“Essentially an Evil Thing”

by Jonathan Wilson

Recent European controversies over the veneration of historical figures have considered war consequentially, as a means of achieving national ends. It's time to think of war, as the Nuremberg judges did, as an intrinsic evil. 

France Battles Over Whether to "Cancel" or Celebrate Napoleon

French President Macron will place a wreath on the former Emperor's tomb to commemorate the bicentennial of his death, as French citizens debate his legacy including his contempt for Republicanism both in independent Haiti and in France itself.

Emmanuel Macron’s Socially Constructed Bogeymen

by Daniel W. Drezner

What, exactly, "Islamo-leftism" is, and what relationship it could possibly have to American academic theories, are two big questions left unanswered by the French President's attacks on academic ideas. 

French newspaper Le Monde apologises for magazine cover amid claims it 'likened Macron to Hitler'

Le Monde insisted that it had not intended to portray Mr Macron as being akin to Hitler.

Voters Rebel in Europe’s Big Three

by Walter Russell Mead

Western political systems are under strain despite good economic times.

Walter Russell Mead says Trump is right to defend nationalism

by Fareed Zacharia

Monsieur Macron is wrong.

Trump Ridicules French for Losses in World Wars

He says the U.S. had to rescue them.

France’s Macron admits to military’s systematic use of torture in Algeria war

France will formally acknowledge the French military’s systemic use of torture in the Algerian War in the 1950s and 1960s, an unprecedented step forward in grappling with its long-suppressed legacy of colonial crimes.

Emmanuel Macron and echoes of May 1968

by Elizabeth Benjamin

Instead of celebrating the occasion, the French president appears to be inadvertently recreating it.

Everyone in France Wants to Claim the Legacy of 1968

by Robert Zaretsky

Leftists want to celebrate revolutionary idealism; conservatives, the triumph of traditional authority. And Emmanuel Macron is trying to split the difference.