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. […]
Slow growth in France is benefiting public infrastructure, but purchasing power is sluggish. In the United States, booming growth is a windfall for individual […]
As a keen observer of both France and the United States, Alexis de Tocqueville worried that democracy would lead to despotism. Does the contemporary […]
Some books should be read in the original. Eighty years after it first appeared in print, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella merits a re-read. […]
A recent book entitled Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France is shaking up preconceptions about the contribution of American artists in France […]
What can we learn from the latest Forbes ranking? French heirs lead the luxury and gastronomy sectors, while their American rivals are self-made men […]