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BBC Correspondent Allan Little has an excellent report on affairs in France, “France’s ‘pursuit of harmony’.” I’m a big fan of virtually everything French — language, poetry, food, ambience (even the word), geography, architecture, etc., etc., but not of French statism, which is strangling a great nation. (I got some rather tart emails from French diplomats after I remarked, in an interview on the ABC News Special “Is America No. 1?,” that France was turning into a giant theme park: “Franceland.”) A good comparison of French economic policy and its effects (as well as the policies of Germany and Italy) with those of the U.S. can be found in Olaf Gersemann’s truly eye-opening book, Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality.
Update: Some people who are trying to change France have organized together as Libert��?���© Ch��?���©rie.