What Sarkozy Won’t Change
By George F. Will (THE WASHINGTON POST, 26/08/07):
French libraries are said to file their nation’s constitutions — there have been more than a dozen since 1789; the current one is a relatively ancient 49 years old — under periodicals. Now Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s peripatetic new president, has created a commission on constitutional reform. The commission includes Jack Lang, who, as minister of culture in 1983 under President Francois Mitterrand, staged a sublimely unserious conference on the (supposed) world economic crisis, featuring the likes of Sophia Loren, Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer.
Is Sarkozy a serious man? Some American conservatives consider him a kindred spirit and think they see in his election a heartening portent of their coming revival: He succeeded an intensely unpopular two-term president of his own party (Jacques Chirac) by promising bold reforms.… Seguir leyendo »