The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Time for another update of the Flophouse citizenship/migration reading list. New books are in  green . I highly recommend all the titles bel...

It is one thing to read about the polarization of politics in the American homeland; it is quite another to meet it en direct . The news t...

"The source of tension in this sphere may be the unwarranted opinion held by most homeland leaders, as well as the rank and file, that ...

Last night I trekked into Paris to the American Library to hear Justin E. Smith expand on the themes he wrote about in his New York Times op...

Writing about the Hollande affair last week I said, "The Powers That Be in this country seem to be a bit behind the times. Sleeping wi...

"To be human here is thus not to be Everyman;  it is to be a particular kind of man, and of course men differ:  "Other fields,...

Yesterday's CBC story about Carol Tapanila and her disabled son is very troubling but it is so much more than just a story about the uni...