Diversity: America vs. France
Two authors discuss how notions of race, culture, and gender differ when we toggle between American Exceptionalism and the French Exception.
Tag: France
Decolonizing Culture
What a leftist Moroccan journal from the 60s can teach us about today’s cultural crises.
Competing for Global Talent
How South Korea can leverage brain drain to shore up its competitive edge.
Dear Rebecca …
A Turkish Jew interned at Drancy writes home. The camp in Drancy, circa 1941. Creative Commons image from the Bundesarchiv of Germany via Wikimedia Commons. The following is a letter from Yaco Soulam, detained in Drancy, to his wife, Rebecca in Paris. The letter was …
The Headscarf Debates Rage On
Perhaps no other single article of clothing has generated so much debate in recent years, as the Islamic headscarf. These simple, seemingly innocuous garments have become a symbol of larger debates about the belonging of immigrants and the actively religious in Europe and North America.
The Unholy Trinity of the French Enlightenment
How mystics, radicals, and philosophers shared heretical views of the self in 18th-century France. A Q&A with CHARLY COLEMAN The traditional consensus on the Enlightenment describes a compellingly simple narrative. It portrays humankind’s emergence from the shadows of blind faith and self-denial to its discovery …
