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[JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP] This statue was erected rapidly (maybe I shouldn’t speak of erection) but it was ...

The day before yesterday, this nice-looking American cattle rancher named Cliven Bundy  was arrested in Portland (Oregon). The Federal cr...

Try this link to a French media website that has picked up some kind of a US crime story:  http://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/usa-un-repo...

Americans tend to tell us so many nasty stories about everyday problems in their immense land (not to mention stories of the candidate Trump...

It's nice and reassuring for an Antipodean European such as me to realize that we can look in on US weirdies as if we were visiting a so...

Bernard-Henri Lévy (often referred to as BHL) is a brilliant French intellectual who has played a political role in several international c...

That's a new word I've just invented (in fact, a borrowing from French). The adjective Christic (distinct from Christian , but clea...

When I heard of the existence of the following list of names, my immediate reaction was: "No, that's not possible. It's surely ...

In the context that concerns me, the US TV competition Dancing with the Stars , several individuals need, if not deserve, our prayers. This ...

Oral Roberts [1918-2009] was a US TV-evangelist, and this is a recent cover of a magazine on miracles published by his followers. Jeez, Ora...

A few weeks ago, in writing a blog article entitled Americans fond of symbolic destruction [ display ] , I had been motivated by two quite ...

See how long you can watch the following holy shit (made, of course, in the USA) before being overcome by nausea: I got as far as the first ...

Personally, the only act of "symbolic destruction" in which I've ever participated was the elimination by flames of the previo...

Emmanuelle phoned me up this morning, from the airport in Paris, to inform me that she and her friend were about to leave for an excursion ...

It was the archaic evangelist Billy Graham , a sort of circus mesmerizer of crowds, who succeeded in convincing the US Congress, in 1952, to...

In my novel entitled All the Earth is Mine , the young mining engineer Jacob Rose has to transport equipment (including a small helicopter)...