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Européennes 2019 / Le Club / Focus

The European Elections

24 May 2019 | Jacob Hamburger

This week’s elections for the European Parliament may be the most consequential in the continent’s history. On the one hand, right-wing parties and other anti-establishment “populist” movements may be poised […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

Mélenchon: “Federate the people!”

24 April 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

Jean-Luc Mélenchon contains multitudes. After the Notre-Dame fire, he was among the most eloquent of commentators, intimately familiar with the history of the cathedral. But his familiarity with the vast […]

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Books/Livres / Le Club

The Return of Populism

12 March 2019 | Anton Jäger

Review of Le Retour des populismes : L’État du monde 2019, edited by Bertrand Badie and Dominique Vidal (La Découverte, 2018).   The populism industry is booming. According to numbers assembled […]

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Jacob Hamburger: Blog Editor

More thoughts on immigration and the left

30 January 2019 | Jacob Hamburger

After a number of comments and conversations since my last post on the so-called “nationalist” left in Europe, I have two quick thoughts I want to add. First, some people have […]

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On “Left nationalism”

11 January 2019 | Jacob Hamburger

In the attempt to hold myself to my new year’s resolution of posting here rather than in long Twitter threads, I want to flesh out my reaction to a provocative […]

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The Revolution Will Be Livestreamed

28 November 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

  Over the last several years I’ve tried to resist comparisons between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Bernie Sanders, mostly because these comparisons tend to posit a simplistic notion of “left-wing populism” […]

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Yellow Fever

17 November 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

France is finally on the verge of a national mobilization capable of bringing the country to its knees: the gilets jaunes movement, which began primarily as a revolt against diesel taxes […]

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The Rule of Law: Battleground for Democracy

10 November 2018 | Tom Theuns

  It has become commonplace to diagnose European politics with a populist disease, even as the meaning of populism is often left vague and contested. Evidence to this effect is […]

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Jacob Hamburger: Blog Editor

A Bad Week for Mélenchon

22 October 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

Hearing the news of the raids on the offices of La France insoumise and the home of Jean-Luc Mélenchon last week, one might have had some sympathy for the left-wing party […]

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Mélenchon’s European Tightrope

29 August 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

One of the most frequent criticisms on the French left of La France insoumise and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (a criticism I have addressed in other writing) is that the “populist” movement and […]

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Thoughts on La France Insoumise

4 July 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

I have a long article in the new issue of Dissent examining the potential future of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France insoumise. When I first thought to do a piece on LFI, not […]

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Populism: The Left’s Bad Cholesterol?

29 March 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

  I have a review out today of Eric Fassin’s pamphlet against left populism (and by extension against Jean-Luc Mélenchon), written last spring during the French presidential election campaign but […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

A la recherche de l’unité perdue

20 March 2018 | Arthur Goldhammer

A funny thing has happened to the French left. Jean-Luc Mélenchon realized his dream of destroying the PS, but thus far he hasn’t been able to put anything solid in […]

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L’insoumis

28 February 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

Gilles Perret has a new documentary out this week based on footage of Jean-Luc Mélenchon during his 2017 presidential campaign. The film, L’insoumis, has been predictably praised to high heavens as […]

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Elites and democracy / Le Club / Focus

Faut-il avoir lu Ricoeur pour gouverner ?

12 February 2018 | Aurore Lambert

Aurore Lambert est secrétaire générale de la Revue française des affaires sociales et doctorante en science politique à Paris 1. Ses travaux portent sur le capital culturel des élus nationaux. […]

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Laïcité, republicanism, and the left

25 January 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

  When I logged on to Facebook last night, the first thing I found in my feed was a theater invitation from Jean-Luc Mélenchon. At the Théâtre de Ménilmontant this […]

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Interviews/Entretiens / Le Club

Jean-Claude Monod: “Il y a une figure qu’on peut exhumer, le chef émancipateur”

22 January 2018 | Jean-Claude Monod

  Directeur de recherches au CNRS et professeur de philosophie à l’Ecole normale supérieure, Jean-Claude Monod est l’auteur de Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie?, une réflexion sur le charisme et l’autorité dans la […]

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Jean-Claude Monod: “After the totalitarian experience, we can recover the emancipatory leader”

| Jean-Claude Monod

  Jean-Claude Monod is a research director at the CNRS and professor of philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure. In Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie? [What is a leader in a democracy?], he […]

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Movements and Parties

21 January 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

This week’s Canard enchaîné reports that Emmanuel Macron—along with Richard Ferrand, the president of the parliamentary group of La République en marche—are struggling to control the left-leaning members of the governing majority who […]

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