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May 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Risks of Siding With French Secularism
The National Front's defense of 'Charlie Hebdo' should make the mag's progressive American defenders wary
May 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Aesthetic Failure of 'Charlie Hebdo'
The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s
May 6, 2015
Jeet Heer
How Did Everybody Suddenly Become an Expert on French Visual Satire?
May 4, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Anti-Islam Exhibit Attacked in Texas Is a Clearer Free Speech Case Than 'Charlie Hebdo'
March 27, 2015
Diana Pinto
I'm a European Jew—and No, I'm Not Leaving
March 20, 2015
Robert Zaretsky
Nicolas Sarkozy Is Pulling a Netanyahu Ahead of the French Elections
January 20, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
France Should Stop Treating Jews as an Idea Rather Than as People
January 16, 2015
James McAuley
There's a Model for How France Should Treat Its Muslims. It's How France Treats Its Jews.
January 16, 2015
Matt Schiavenza
China Is Using 'Charlie Hebdo' to Justify Its Own Crackdown on Free Speech
January 14, 2015
Eli Valley
A Cartoonist's Dilemma After the 'Charlie Hebdo' Massacre
January 14, 2015
Jeet Heer
Found in Translation
Arthur Goldhammer is America's finest bridge to French culture
January 12, 2015
James McAuley
Multiculturalism Can Work in France. President Hollande Already Showed Us How.
January 12, 2015
Danny Vinik
Vox's Matt Yglesias Is Right About France's National Front
January 11, 2015
Omer Aziz
Editors Who Censor 'Charlie Hebdo' Cartoons Are Stereotyping All Muslims as Extremists
January 9, 2015
Myriam Francois-Cerrah
If the 'Charlie Hebdo' Terrorists Wanted to Polarize the West, Then They're Succeeding
January 9, 2015
Elaine Teng
France Should Invite the Far-Right National Front to the 'Charlie Hebdo' Unity Rally
January 8, 2015
Donald Morrison
What Does It Mean to Be French? The 'Charlie Hebdo' Massacre Complicates the Answer.
January 8, 2015
Alice Robb
There Is No 'Charlie Hebdo' In America
January 7, 2015
James McAuley
The Attack on Charlie Hebdo Plays Right Into Marine Le Pen's Hands
January 7, 2015
Elaine Teng
The Most Recent Target of Charlie Hebdo's Satire Wasn't Islam. It Was Islamophobia.
The French paper skewered all forms of dogmatic thinking

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