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Do You Hear the People Sing?

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
October 31, 2011

Robert Zaretsky has found the historical analogue for Occupy Wall Street: the French protests in 1936, 75 years ago, against a leftist government that allegedly had not done enough to address their needs. The head of that government was the brilliant Léon Blum, also France’s first Jewish prime minister. Today in Tablet Magazine, Zaretsky examines how Blum failed to address his crisis, and where the eerily similar President Obama can do better.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.