The otherwise dull-as-dishwater campaign for the European elections has produced one amusing passe-d’armes involving two rather surprising combatants: Nathalie Loiseau, the head of LREM’s list, and Edwy Plenel, the editor of Médiapart. […]

Review of Matthew Pressman, On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News (Harvard University Press, 2018)     Readers imagining the history of the American news media might think of […]

Image by Dr. François S. Clemmons via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers#/media/File:DivaMan_as_Officer_Clemmons.png) Until watching Morgan Neville’s documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, it had been a long while since […]

For the second time in three days, President Macron, le pourfendeur de la présidence bavarde of his predecessor, sat down for a lengthy interview. Regarding the content of his discussion with journalists […]

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 […]