France’s Pension Revolt: A Global Masterclass in How to Argue Over Who Pays for Dinner
PARIS—From the banks of the Seine, the French government is once again demonstrating its uncanny knack for turning political theater into high art—think Molière with spreadsheets, or Racine rewritten by accountants who’ve read too much Kafka. While the rest of the planet debates whether democracy is dying of natural causes or being actively smothered with…