News cycles have historically tended to forget ongoing disasters, from the polio outbreak to our various endless wars. The same could happen with this pandemic.
Why does Canada have not one but several memorials to Nazi collaborators? And why, when statues are toppling all over the world, have Canadian Jewish groups remained silent?
Focusing on the tensions between top-down reforms and bottom-up democratic discontent, Herrick Chapman’s new history tells a very different story about postwar France.