The French election is in a week. Here’s what you need to know

This article was first published by Freedom Today. There’s only one more week to go until the first round of the French presidential election. With five major candidates and a total number of 11 running in this race, not only seems there to be diversity in the field, the continuous scandals make the run for […]

Top 6 razloga zašto bi Le Pen bila loša predsjednica

This article has been translated into Croatian for the website liberal.hr. The article was originally here. The English original was an article of mine published by the Foundation for Economic Education. Marine Le Pen vodeća je kandidatkinja u utrci za predsjednika Francuske i nova heroina ljubitelja krajnje desnice. Njena kampanja uvelike podsjeća na lanjsku kampanju Donalda Trumpa […]

Έξι λόγοι για να απορρίψουμε την Μαρίν Λε Πεν, πέρα από τον ρατσισμό

This article has been translated into Greek by Liberal.gr. You can check out the original post here. The English original was an article of mine published by the Foundation for Economic Education. Στο δρόμο προς τις γαλλικές προεδρικές εκλογές, η προεκλογική εκστρατεία της Μαρίν Λε Πεν παρουσιάζει κάποιες παράξενες ομοιότητες με την αντίστοιχη εκστρατεία του […]

6 raisons pour ne pas voter Le Pen, hors du «c’est du racisme»

Cet article est une traduction de mon article anglais 6 Non-“It’s Racism” Arguments to Reject Marine Le Pen, publié par la Foundation for Economic Education. Le plus qu’on se rapproche d’avril, le plus la campagne de Marine Le Pen nous rappelle de celle de Donald Trump: confrontation avec les médias, un souverainisme hostile à l’immigration et […]

Macron’s Surge: What’s it Worth?

At third place in the polls, tête à tête with conservative candidate François Fillon, a staunch europhile, and a dear of many enthusiastic young voters, Emmanuel Macron is the supposed incoming star in French politics. Even libertarians in the République are getting excited. But Macron’s free-market ideas might fail very quickly given the French political reality.

Протекционизм, война с наркотиками и другие причины, почему не стоит поддерживать Ле Пен

This article has been translated into Russian for the online magazine Reed, and can be found here. The English original was an article of mine published by the Foundation for Economic Education. (Reed intro) На кандидата в президенты Франции Марин Ле Пен часто вешают ярлык расистского и исламофобского политика. Член «Европейских студентов за свободу» Билл […]

Le Pen’s Success isn’t Based on Xenophobia, but on Trade Policy

This article was first published by CapX. Yes, we get it. Marine Le Pen is a divider, a xenophobe, a dangerous nativist who’s willing to disregard individual rights of every kind to achieve her goal of Making France Great Again. She’s racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic. And you’ll delete us off social media if we even […]

France’s next far-right superstar

This article was first published by Reaction. You can see my author profile here. Young, dynamic and unburdened by the past of her grandfather, Marine Le Pen’s niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen will soon be the real deal of the far-right in France.

French Election: Bad News for Drug Policy Reform

This article is a publication for the European Students for Liberty Blog, which regularly publishes liberty-related news stories. You can check out my articles on my blog profile here. With the election in France moving closer to its decisive moments, supporters of sensible drug policy reform can only look on a dim horizon.