Articles

Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey

On March 21, French President François Mitterrand arrives in the United States for a three-day state visit. When he was elected President in May 1981, he was the subject o...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

AutoWorkers and ‘Sniffing Planes’ AutoWorkers and ‘Sniffing Planes’

As the year opened in Paris, two stories dominated the news, one of them sad, the other funny. The first occurred at the Talbot auto plant in Poissy, just outside the capital.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals

Nothing is louder than the silence of intellectuals.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Honor the Man–and the Movement Honor the Man–and the Movement

Hardly had the Nobel Peace Prize committee announced that Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was its 1983 laureate but President Reagan and other cold warriors began praising the choice...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

How Many Masses Is Poland Worth? How Many Masses Is Poland Worth?

"Oh God," Heinrich Heine wrote, "how big is your zoo!" This sentence kept popping into my head in June as I read the dispatches of my journalistic colleagues on Pope John Paul II...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Socialism Takes Two Steps Back Socialism Takes Two Steps Back

The French socialist saga makes awkward reading for left-wingers. It has a wistful air of déjà vu.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly

A film beginning with a shot of a little boy being beaten for not having learned the Declaration of the Rights of Man by heart, and closing in the overwhelming shadow of the guillo...

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Imagination Has Not Yet Taken Power Imagination Has Not Yet Taken Power

"What has happened to your 'socialist' France? Is it going the way of all social-democratic flesh?"

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

‘Solidarity Will Never Die’ ‘Solidarity Will Never Die’

If Polish law supposes that a huge social movement can be voted out of existence, then, as Mr.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Three on Poland Three on Poland

In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

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