The good folks at the Library of America (LOA) recently sent along their collection of New York columnist Jimmy Breslin’s essential writings. (Some of you may recall I wrote about this back in April.) I’m about halfway through the collection. […]
France
The Author’s Corner with Olivier Zunz
Olivier Zunz is James Madison Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia. This interview is based on his new book, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville (Princeton University Press, 2022). JF: What led […]
The Author’s Corner with Joan DeJean
Joan DeJean is Trustee Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. This interview is based on her new book, Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (Basic Books, 2022). JF: What led you […]
On French secularism
The French government wants a secular state. In other words, they want to keep religion out of public life. What does that mean and how is the French view of the separation of church and state different from the United […]