More on the French Riots

Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at the University of Kent, provides an interesting and thoughtful commentary on the French riots. For Furedi, the French political elite has lost its way and France has consequently lost its political identity. He’s a Marxist (of some sort), not a libertarian or classical liberal, but it’s worth reading nonetheless, more so than the musings of many conservatives and Randians on this topic.

James Heartfield, a writer living in London and author of Second World War: The Battle of the Books, asks Who’s fanning the flames?. Heartfield, who also seems to be a Marxist of some kind, argues that it isn’t that assimilation has failed, but that it hasn’t really been tried.