This piece in the New Yorker on events in France is worth reading. It starts slowly and ends weakly, but the middle features a lucid and interesting discussion of the few intellectuals in French high culture who are resolutely pro-American, or at least, as the author puts it, anti-anti-American.

In some ways, the thinkers discussed make more coherent cases for the war in Iraq than the administration did, and they are convinced that the wave of Islamic terror out there is far more dangerous than even the administration recognizes. Still, they're still no fans of Bush - they are French, after all. I find this and some of their other views disagreeable, but their views are interesting, especially since most French voices we hear these days are so reflexively anti-American.
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