It is not merely ironic: it is simply ludicrous that an ethnic group that denies equality within its own ranks demands equal treatment and respect from a host country.

I am referring, of course, to the Swiss vote opposing the erection of more minarets, and the cry of...

Had it been a Christian or a Jew who slaughtered thirteen people in one mad frenzy, I doubt there would have been much psycho-analysis of the murderer and his motives. It was a ghastly criminal act, period.

But the murderer is a Muslim, and rather than examining...

So women are not as happy as they used to be.

That's what Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers claim in their much-touted book, The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness.

Let's first define "happiness," because even our founding fathers, in the Declaration of Independence, simply said it was "an...

I've had it with the Swiss.

I used to admire them -- their clean, orderly, decorous way of life. Their stubborn independence and self-reliance. I forgave them for the years they never joined the United Nations, and even now, not joining the European Union.

When I learned,...

Sometime in the Fifties, William Buckley, Jr. wrote a scathing essay about his university called "God and Man at Yale." He was deploring the free-wheeling liberalism of his alma mater: its "godless" academic tradition.

What would Buckley think of Yale today? The Yale University Press is releasing...

A lot is being written about this wonderful man who has left us, and there is little that I can add. But my memories are very precious.

We met just over 30 years ago, when I was a junior correspondent in the Paris bureau of CBS News....

Perhaps even more than America, France insists on the separation of church and state. France also strongly defends women's rights. Today, these two principles happen to coincide: girls in public high schools are not allowed to wear headscarves, female excision is outlawed, and so, too, is bigamy (although many Muslim...

I am personally intrigued by what is going on in Iran these days. And I am amused by America's bemusement. Here's why.

Almost 31 years ago, in the fall of 1978, the Ayatollah Khomeini was granted asylum in France. He set up his modest headquarters in Neaufle-le-Chateau, a...

At the risk of alienating everyone on the planet, I am going to raise my voice against the Susan Boyle phenomenon.

Not against the dear woman herself, but against the manipulative media that shot her to stardom. And the millions of crazed people who now see her...

I have decided this year to ignore Valentine's Day.

At least, the real Valentine's Day, replete with candy, cards, flowers and candlelit dinners.

I am going to fire up my imagination, and my libido, by exploring love on the internet. At Match.com, I am told there are no...

France opened its heart to America yesterday, and Paris opened the doors of its magnificent City Hall to a jubilant crowd of 1,300 -- mostly Americans -- to watch the inauguration ceremony, transmitted live by CNN.

The flags of France, America, and the city of Paris flanked the enormous screen...

On December 8, Roger Cohen wrote in The New York Times about how much Paris has changed since he lived here in the seventies. He says it hasn't changed for the better; I have to rebut him.

True, Roger, the city has changed. Evolved, I'd say....

What is missing is Obama's white American mother, Ann Dunham, who loved and married a black man from Kenya and gave birth to his son.

In the preface to his book, "Dreams...

Not since 9/11 have I felt so conspicuously American, here in Paris, as I feel today.

But back then there was shock and sympathy; today there is admiration, congratulations, joy.

Last night I attended a huge Election Night party held -- in all places...

Economics is neither a science nor an art -- it's a tool, and like any tool it can be used to create or destroy.

It can also become rusty, broken or obsolete.

And that's where we are today, peering in confusion into a toolbox...

There's a lot of spin out there, and the way things are going, Sarah Palin may end up looking like Mother Teresa. With five kids and a gun.

There must be a few good reasons to vote for her. Let's see -- as vice president, she wouldn't...

God doesn't play dice with the universe, said Einstein. But John McCain is playing dice with America.

In a move that startled even his fellow Republicans, he has picked a running mate who couldn't be less prepared to be vice president of the United States --...

Much to Barack Obama's credit, he is not acting presidential on this European tour. He said it in Berlin, and he repeated it Friday in Paris: "I'm not here as a presidential candidate, I'm here as an American senator."

He met for an hour with French president...

I'm afraid it had to happen -- after inspiring us with promises of change, of honesty in government, of civil rights and respect for the law, Barack Obama has caved in.

His vote in favor of the new FISA law is not merely disappointing, it is shameful. Here is...

It's Saturday, June 28 - I'm going to get into trouble for writing this, but here goes:

Like many other big cities around the world, Paris is holding its Gay Pride parade today. As (bad) luck would have it, the phantasmagoria is stomping along right under my...