How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard
Suspense without passion is France's strange electoral mood for the moment. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's advisers are both perturbed and fundamentally optimistic.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Only a Beginning… Only a Beginning…
Nothing is over but the counting and not even that. In the last two Sundays of June, Frenchmen will return to the polls, and François Mitterrand will invite them to confirm ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
Mitterrand Redux Mitterrand Redux
Mitterrand can make it. He is, undoubtedly, the winner of the first round in the French presidential election.
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
Socialism and the Soviet Bloc Socialism and the Soviet Bloc
Readers may recall the shocked grief and revulsion of Alyosha Karamazov as he discovered that the corpse of his saintly master, Father Zossima, was stinking.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism
Is Europe, like Britain, swinging to the right? Whatever the answer, the State Department need not be haunted, for the time being, by the ghost of Eurocommunism.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Unto Every One That Hath Unto Every One That Hath
EQUALITY.By John Rees.Praeger Publishers. I52 p p . $5.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Election ’95–Fractured France Election ’95–Fractured France
The miracle did not happen. Dynamics, as Lionel Jospin had hoped, did not defeat arithmetic. On his third try, Jacques Chirac made it. The Socialist interlude is over.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Ghosts of May The Ghosts of May
Today the cobblestones of Paris's Latin Quarter are covered with asphalt.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Hate in a Warm Climate Hate in a Warm Climate
He came, he threatened, but he didn't conquer. The French Riviera will not be the first important region in Europe to be ruled by neofascists.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer