BackboneAmerica

When we French need insights into American society, we can profitably peruse French historian Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 classic, (more…)

One of the first speeches Barack Obama gave after becoming the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party was to AIPAC, (more…)

Italians, Germans, and British welcomed me and Donna cordially as we traveled through Rome, Florence, Frankfurt, Munich, London, (more…)

I’m sure that Barack Obama’s recent comments defending his pledge to meet “without precondition” with rogue leaders (more…)

If President Sarkozy’s sharp drop in popularity is anything to go by, then the land of l’exception culturelle may well be getting aberrantly fed up with circuses. (more…)

The all-time record for lengthy conflicts has long been the Hundred Years War, fought between England and France in the late Middle Ages. (more…)

France’s dirigiste president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is just back from a state visit to China, where he unscrupulously traded (more…)

President Sarkozy’s speech before the U.S. Congress on Nov. 7 certainly sounded very heartening to friends of America in France. Reversing years of efforts by his predecessors (more…)

As the prattle in France about consumers’ perceived loss of purchasing power reveals, discredited Keynesian and Marxist economic fallacies die hard in old Europe. (more…)

When my friend, former US Rep. Bob Schaffer, asked me to lead the Pledge of Allegiance in the name of Franco-American friendship (more…)

“We will bury you,” Nikita Khrushchev famously threatened the United States in the late 1950s. His cockiness, and the concern of many liberals (more…)

Friends of America and individual freedom in France can’t be heartened by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s first-ever address to the UN (more…)

Click to RejectLost.org to help Frank Gaffney stop Senate ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty. For a briefing by Amity Schlaes on (more…)

“We are all Americans!” proclaimed the uncharacteristic but dramatic and poignant headline in Le Monde, France’s left-wing newspaper, on Sept. 12, 2001, (more…)

Upon waking this coming Tuesday, I will think aloud: “Today is 9/11. Today is a sad day. Today is the saddest day of the year.” That fateful September 11th six years ago, at about four in the afternoon here in France, I remember (more…)