From Dissent, a special section on the "new" France, including Philippe Askenazy (CNRS): France's 35-Hour Workweek: Myths and Realities; Mitchell Cohen on France: Red rose, blue grip; of croissants and couscous: An article on national identity after the French elections; an article on gender and politics in France: Segolene Royal and the Socialist Party; and an essay on Internet politics in France. From Multitudes, an anthropologist between banlieues and globalized world: Monique Selim recalls her research into social structures in French housing estates in the 1970s and the taboos she ran up against on talking about the existence of working-class racism. From Esprit, an interview with Lilian Thuramon the teaching the history of slavery, about the positive function of French identity, and why it is too soon to write off the French model of integration. France has been stung by a lament in Time magazine that French culture is all but dead. In a response, French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy argues that the criticism tells us more about the US cultural landscape.
