Suicide of France

Born in 1958, Éric Zemmour worked as a journalist for three decades, notably at Le Figaro, France’s leading daily newspaper. His books criticizing judicial activism, feminism, and mass migration, along with his television appearances, have made him one of the most famous critics of progressive thought in France. He is the author of several bestsellers, including the original French edition of The Suicide of France. Zemmour ran for president in the 2022 election and founded the Reconquête party, which has become the fourth largest political force in the country.Nathan Pinkoski is a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America and holds a DPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford. His writings and essays have appeared in among other places Compact, First Things, and The Claremont Review of Books. He is the translator of Alasdair MacIntyre: an Intellectual Biography (Alasdair MacIntyre: une biographie intellectuelle) (Notre Dame Press), an award-winning book by French political philosopher Émile Perreau-Saussine, and most recently authored the introduction for a new translation of Jean Raspail's dystopian novel, The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des Saints) (Vauban Books).

The Suicide of France is a work of thrilling prose and high intellectual ambition. Already it can be called a classic. As Paul Johnson did in Modern Times, Zemmour takes the events of the last half-century, long shrouded in progressive clichés, and places them in a more logical relationship: “We were taught to love what we used to hate,” he writes, “and to hate what we used to love.” — Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties