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Robert Zaretsky

France Feb 26, 2020 Snapshot

The Polanski Affair

Is it possible that in the controversy over the Polanski affair, truth—or, at least, the chance to weigh in on truth—has been stopped?

Robert Zaretsky

Civil Society Feb 4, 2020 Snapshot

A France Without Jews Is No Longer Unthinkable

Facing Anti-Semitism, French Jews are moving to urban areas and withdrawing into religious identity, introducing the future possibility of a France without Jews.

Robert Zaretsky

A vandalized Jewish cemetery in Herrlisheim, France, December 2018

Strategy & Conflict Jan 9, 2020 Snapshot

Trump’s Napoleon Moment

Napoléon Bonaparte’s decision to assassinate the Duc d’Enghien in 1804 can reveal the costs and consequences of Trump’s order to assassinate Soleimani.

Robert Zaretsky

Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 2020

Politics & Society Dec 30, 2019 Snapshot

Ambivalence About Moscow Is a French Tradition

For French statesmen and thinkers, Russia has long played a crucial role in the European project.

Robert Zaretsky

Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin at a joint news conference in Paris, France, December 2019

Politics & Society Nov 26, 2019 Snapshot

Algeria Faces the Unknown—Finally

What if an election is held and no one votes?

Robert Zaretsky

A protest rejecting the December presidential election in Algiers, November 2019

Civil Society Nov 1, 2019 Snapshot

The Cure for the Plague Is Decency

Albert Camus’s work offers lessons for those resisting nationalism and irrationalism in today’s embattled democracies.

Robert Zaretsky

Political Philosophy Oct 4, 2019 Snapshot

An Odyssey Through the Post-Fact World

Each generation gets the Odysseus it deserves, and an Odysseus who deceives, dissembles, and defrauds is the one best suited to our post-truth, post-fact, and post...

Robert Zaretsky

Mosaic depicting Odysseus and the sirens

Political Philosophy Sep 6, 2019 Snapshot

Nineteenth-Century Nihilists Foretold Our Era

We are witness to a political world shorn of the values that Dostoyevsky declared useless without God and that Nietzsche pronounced dead along with God.

Robert Zaretsky

Political Philosophy Aug 23, 2019 Snapshot

The Myth and Meaning of Resistance

Seventy-five years later, understanding what drove France's “army of shadows.”

Robert Zaretsky

Political Philosophy Jul 24, 2019 Snapshot

Max Weber Diagnosed His Time and Ours

One hundred years later, Max Weber's "Politics as a Vocation" remains a guide for the increasingly wretched and violent events now unfolding in our own time and place.

Robert Zaretsky

At the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919

Political Philosophy Jun 28, 2019 Snapshot

Rooting for a New Patriotism

Seventy years since its publication, French philosopher Simone Weil's The Need for Roots is more pertinent than ever.

Robert Zaretsky

Simone Weil in 1921

Campaigns & Elections May 24, 2019 Snapshot

France Faces Its Extremes

In François-Xavier Bellamy and Raphaël Glucksmann, France’s embattled traditional parties have decided to place the fate of their parties in the hands of intellectuals...

Robert Zaretsky

Bellamy at a rally in Villeurbanne near Lyon, France, May 2019

Politics & Society Feb 10, 2011 Snapshot

Egypt and the Longue Durée

The world won't begin to understand the implications of Egypt's revolution until it stands still long enough to explore the deeper currents of the country's history,...

Robert Zaretsky

Middle East - Foreign Affairs

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