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Still be worried about France

Ines Valdez (OSU): Non-Domination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and the Full Veil Ban. The professor and the jihadi: When a terrorist made a death threat against Gilles Kepel, France’s most famous scholar of Islam, it deepened his embroilment in a national debate over Muslim assimilation and extremism. Can zombies make history? Ian Birchall reviews Who is Charlie? Xenophobia and the New Middle Class by Emmanuel Todd. As France’s towns wither, fears of a decline in “Frenchness”. The French, coming apart: Christopher Caldwell on Christophe Guilluy, a social thinker who illuminates his country’s populist divide. France and its intellectuals: Robert Zaretsky reviews La Fin de L’Intellectuel Francais? De Zola a Houellebecq by Shlomo Sand.

Macron’s rout of Le Pen shows how Trump is hurting rightwing populists. Why Emmanuel Macron matters to the whole world: If he fails, populism, nationalism and protectionism will soon be resurgent. Liberals should still be worried about France. A buffet of French history: Robert Darnton reviews Histoire mondiale de la France, ed. Patrick Boucheron.