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Entry: Learning to Love the French Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/learning_to_love_the_french#12324 Post contents: Charles A. Coulombe is simply the best writer on this site, or at least the equal of Taki himself. I urge the editor to offer him a blog. (mind you, I'm not saying some of the other writers to be bad). Only a minor quibble: re the American “specifically anti-French bias”. We in Dixie fiercely protest the idea that American folkways are New England’s writ large. The Jeffersonian tradition is not Francophobe at all. Indeed, it might be too Francophile. Francophobia and Anglophila are definitely Hamiltonian. And if anything is the curse upon America, it is Hamilton. My own prejudices: Mediterranean Europe is superior to Catholic <i>Mitteleuropa</i>, Catholic <i>Mitteleuropa</i> to Protestant, Protestant <i>Mitteleuropa</i> to Anglo-Celtic Europe -- and all four superior to New England writ large. Sent at: 2008 11 23