Reminder: This Blog Has Moved

The French Politics blog has moved here. Thanks to all our readers.

Two New Posts at Tocqueville21

I have two new posts up at the Tocqueville21 site, one on Wauquiez, the other on Philippot. Both must be seen as rivals of Marine Le Pen's for leadership of the far right.

I review three excellent and thought-provoking new books on democracy for The American Prospect.

RSS Feed for Tocqueville21 Site

There is now an RSS feed for the new blog site:
https://tocqueville21.com/feed/

Don't Miss Out

The Tocqueville21 site is up and running, and already a new crop of commentators has sprung up to add their thoughts to those of you loyal readers of this blog. Don't miss out on this new community. My latest post (on Macron and pragmatism) is here, and Jake Hamburger's interview with Wendy Brown is here.

Direct to the new blog site

To reach the new site of the French Politics blog at the Tocqueville21 site, you can use this link. If you do this, you'll go straight to my posts, and if you bookmark this link, your experience will be just like reading the old French Politics blog. But be sure to check out the contributions of my collaborators at Tocqueville21 by using the front page of the site, which offers links to the other content.

I'm going to stop publishing links here, so you should start using the new site as of today. The visual content will continue to improve, I hope, as I make the transition to the Wordpress platform and add a repertoire of images to spiff up the look of the blog. Let me know what you think by commenting on the new blog. Comments are now enabled. The first time you post a comment, your contribution will have to be approved by a moderator, but after that your comments should appear immediately. This procedure should cut down on the comment spam.

Thanks for being faithful readers all these years.

Immigration

Back to English for a post on immigration on the T21 site.

Juppé resigns

I write (in French, for once) on Juppé's resignation at the T21 sie.

Equality

For the launch of the new Tocqueville21 site, which officially opens today, I've written a post on the contemporary meaning of equality. This link will take you directly to the post, and this one will give you all my blog posts, just as if you were reading French Politics.

Daniel Lindenberg Is Dead

Daniel Lindenberg, sociologist and historian, is dead at 77. He is best known for his polemical book, Le Rappel à l'ordre, which unleashed a bitter polemic in the French intellectual left. Lindenberg identified certain intellectuals generally considered to be on the left as "new reactionaries." The book, and the storm that followed, revealed new lines of cleavage around race and ethnicity rather than class. Although more heat than light emanated from the debate, the hullabaloo around the book set the terms of intellectual politics for the next two decades.