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Each week, I’ll examine an area of the new French president’s politics that doesn’t quite live up to the hype.
#1: The French President’s unhealthy obsession with symbolism
#2: Emmanuel Macron’s “feminism”
#3: Emmanuel Macron’s businesslike media strategy is worrying the French press
#4: France’s housing aid row is the latest indication of Emmanuel Macron’s class problem
#5: On immigration, Macron’s words draw borders
#6: Emmanuel Macron’s power struggle with the military
#7: Emmanuel “neither left nor right” Macron is sliding fast toward the right
#8: Macron’s modernism has neither escaped nor addressed France’s colonial history in Africa