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  • Jean Dujardin and Louis Garrel in a still from 'An Officer and a Spy,' (2019)
    Jean Dujardin and Louis Garrel in a still from 'An Officer and a Spy,' (2019)
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    Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus

    Why the filmmaker’s depiction of early-20th-century anti-Semitism in ‘J’accuse’ is, with reservations, ‘important and beautiful’

    byBernard-Henri Lévy
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    The Religion of Liberal Democracy

    How the Dreyfus affair inspired sociologist Émile Durkheim, who died 102 years ago today, to develop an original, provocative, and optimistic view of the French Republic and the rights-bearing individual

    byBlake Smith
  • Albert Cohen in Geneva, 1967
    Albert Cohen in Geneva, 1967
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    America’s Albert Cohen Moment

    Is the Greek-born Swiss Jewish author and diplomat a hapless romantic or a man with a message for our times?

    byMatt Alexander Hanson
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    An Enemy of the People

    Finkielkraut, attacked (and defended)

    byPaul Berman
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    Degas and the Dreyfus Affair

    A portrait of the artist as an anti-Semite

    byLinda Nochlin
  • Aaron Feis and Scott Beigel.
    Aaron Feis and Scott Beigel.
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    Heroes and Schoolteachers

    Notes from the American Inferno: why educational institutions are the locus of our current cultural collapse and our best hope to be saved from it

    byPaul Berman
  • Paul Valery (1871-1945) signing a poem, c. 1930.
    Paul Valery (1871-1945) signing a poem, c. 1930.
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    Extreme Diamonds

    The French poet saw the coming collapse of civilization. A hundred years later, his ‘The Young Fate’ rings true anew.

    byPaul Berman
  • (Clockwise from top left: Caricature from Vanity Fair, 1899; photo: William M. Vander Weyde, ca. 1900;  Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin; The Library of Congress, ca. 1910-1915; Britannica; Dreyfus and his family, The Library of Congress.)
    (Clockwise from top left: Caricature from Vanity Fair, 1899; photo: William M. Vander Weyde, ca. 1900;  Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin; The Library of Congress, ca. 1910-1915; Britannica; Dreyfus and his family, The Library of Congress.)
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    Proust and Dreyfus

    In an excerpt from the newly translated Gaslight, by German writer Joachim Kalka, an examination of how the scandal that rocked France bled into European literature

    byJoachim Kalka
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