Published date: 11 March 2021 16:08 UTC | Last update: 2 weeks 4 days ago
Ideas imported from US campuses are said to threaten French identity, but radical French thinkers have long inspired Americans, and vice versa
A French flag flies over the entrance of the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018 (AFP)
Why are the French up in arms about critical theories and progressive ideas from US campuses and protest movements? What have we done right on US campuses, and in such historic events as the sustained course of the indigenous, civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements, to make the custodians of French imperial racism uncomfortable?