Lecture Canceled

As announced here earlier, I was to give a lecture at CEVIPOF in Paris on October 26. Unfortunately, a medical issue has arisen that will prevent me from traveling for a bit, and I've had to cancel that lecture. My apologies to anyone who took the trouble to register. I will also have to suspend blogging for a while from Tuesday, Oct. 16, while I recuperate. Thanks for your support.

Paris Talk

I will be speaking Paris on Oct. 26, 12:30-2 PM, at CEVIPOF. The subject is a comparison of the US and French presidential elections of 2012. Registration is required at the CEVIPOF Web site.

Promoted

Your humble blogger was promoted yesterday to the rank of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Here I am at the podium at Harvard's Center for European Studies reminiscing about 44 years as a Francophile.

Apologies

Apologies, dear blog readers. I find myself, incongruously, in Florida for a funeral and have been out of touch with the French news for a few days, so blogging will be sporadic to non-existent for a while.

Interview with Doug Henwood

Doug Henwood, the perspicacious mind behind the Left Business Observer, interviewed me the other day for his radio program. You can find a recording here. I'm the first guest for the July 19 broadcast.

Happy Bastille Day!

I'm off for a few days on Block Island, but I want to wish you all a joyous 14 juillet.

Apologies, Prize, etc.

I apologize for my absence these past two days. I was in New York to accept the French-American Foundation Translation Award. I shared this year's nonfiction prize with Richard Howard. So I think you'll grant that I had a good excuse.

Meanwhile, Europe seems to have moved a step closer to the brink, and I'm feeling quite glum about the prospects for a good outcome. More tomorrow.

On the Road Again

I will be in New York for a couple of days, so blogging will again be light.

Article in TNR Online

I've got an article on Hollande on The New Republic Online. An error has crept into the second paragraph, which should of course state that Mitterrand was president "from 1981 until 1995 (he died in 1996)."

From Reader to Candidate

A regular reader and commenter on French Politics has become a candidate (MoDem) for the National Assembly in Argenteuil. Read FrédéricLN's declaration here.

Back Home

I'm back home after logging about 9,000 miles of travel, four lectures, several radio interviews, etc. etc. I will return to normal blogging after I get some sleep. The red-eye home from San Diego left me shut-eye-deprived.

Socialists Celebrate in a California Living Room

À plus tard

I'm off to California, so there will be radio silence here for the next 12 hours or so.

Still Traveling

Apologies for the light blogging, but I am still on the road (currently in Chicago). I return home  tomorrow for 1 day, then off to DC on Tuesday, followed by a trip to California on Thursday. I will be on-line when possible, but feel free to continue your discussions in the comment threads.

Bloomberg Radio Appearance

I just did a Bloomberg Radio interview on yesterday's results. I'm not sure if it will be available by Podcast, but this is the Web site.

Back in the Saddle

I am back at my keyboard for the next few days after a very pleasant excursion to Nevada, where I lectured on French politics at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. I want to thank my host, Prof. Greg Brown, whom I came to know through this blog. Indeed, the connections I've made through the blog have been one of the most rewarding aspects of this activity, and one that I did not anticipate when I began writing on French politics for the Internet five years ago. I also want to take this opportunity to welcome any new Las Vegas-based readers who may have discovered the blog through my visit there. I'm glad to have you with us. And it was instructive to visit your city, a reminder for this life-long Eurocentric Easterner of the diversity of American ways of life. Let a hundred flowers bloom, including the flowers of the desert!

Travels

Blogging will be reduced in coming days as I travel to Las Vegas tomorrow for a lecture at UNLV on the evening of April 17. Readers in the Las Vegas area are cordially invited to attend. After a brief return to Cambridge, I am on the road again next week, to Madison, WI, and Chicago, and then the following week to Washington, DC, Stanford, and finally UCSD. I will try to keep up the blog while traveling, but output will undoubtedly be reduced.