Following its strong showing in the first round of France’s regional elections on December 6, The National Front and party leader Marine Le Pen came crashing back to earth last Sunday in the second round of elections. Having gone down to defeat in a region where the National Front is especially strong, can it now [...]
The terror attacks in Oslo have focused media attention on Europe’s new “anti-Islamization” right — though the kind of attention is as a rule more suited to reinforcing prejudices than to providing insight. The World Affairs Journal has taken the opportunity to make available online my survey of Europe’s new “new right” parties. The article [...]
One of the most typical reactions of French commentators to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York has been a kind of knee jerk disparagement of the American criminal justice system – or the “atrocious” American criminal justice system, as an “expert” put it on the French news channel BFM. But at least one [...]
According to polling data, new National Front leader Marine Le Pen could do even better in the upcoming French presidential elections in 2012 than her father Jean-Marie famously did in 2002. Moreover, at least part of the surge of support for Marine Le Pen appears to be coming not from the “moderate right,” as represented [...]
