October 12, 2015
SUBLIME:
Right-wing 'new reactionaries' stir up trouble among French intellectuals (Angelique Chrisafis, 9 October 2015, The Guardian)
Alain Finkielkraut, the controversial and high-profile philosopher, is at the centre of the row after defending Nadine Morano, a former government minister, who repeatedly insisted France was a "white race" country. This week, Morano was banned from running in the regional elections for Nicolas Sarkozy's rightwing Les Républicains party.Finkielkraut's 2013 bestselling book, The Unhappy Identity, warned of the dangers to French national identity from mass immigration and multiculturalism. The son of a Jewish Polish leather merchant ...
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 12, 2015 3:36 PM
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