The “France, what have you done with your left?” launched by Jean-François Kahn in his latest pamphlet is being followed this strange summer by a new concern. “France, what have you done with your sense of moderation and Cartesian reason?” we might ask ourselves as we gaze up at the uncertain skies in the wake of a legislative election that saw the tumult of passions and radicalism prevail over consensus and restraint…
Director of the Observatoire des radicalités politiques and researcher at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, essayist (“Les droites extrêmes en Europe”, Le Seuil, 2015), Jean-Yves Camus analyses the root causes of the eruption of radicalism on the French political scene.
