Paris-trained Senegalese writer and philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne directs the Institute of African Studies at Columbia, where he connects French thought with Sub-Saharan cultures. […]

As a keen observer of both France and the United States, Alexis de Tocqueville worried that democracy would lead to despotism. Does the contemporary […]

The French enjoy replaying the Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. Anything will set them off, from rising gas prices to pushing the […]

Annie Cohen-Solal arrived on the French literary scene in 1985 with a biography of Jean-Paul Sartre. Her subsequent success saw her appointed cultural counselor […]