Jean-Benoit Nadeau

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Canadian author, journalist, and lecturer. He is the author of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong and The Story of French, which he co-wrote with his wife, Julie Barlow. He is a regular contributor to the national French-language magazine L'actualité and a columnist for MSN.ca. He writes both in English and French and his articles have appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Toronto Star as well as GEO and L'Express.

Posts and Dispatches from Jean-Benoit Nadeau:

  • The OIF’s Place in Politics
    Past fellow Jean Benoit Nadeau discusses the role the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie plans to play in politics, security, and foreign affairs in his Le Devoir article. http://www.ledevoir.com/international/actualites-internationales/481913/francophonie-l-oif-a-sa-place-en-politique  ...

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  • The National Front Has Been Successful Because It Tackles Issues Others Avoid
    The National Post – In their latest op-ed ICWA Trustee Julie Barlow and Past Fellow Jean-Benoît Nadeau explain the growing support for National Front, a right-wing alternative to France’s two mainstream parties, the Socialists and Les Républicains.  They posit that the National Front is gaining support because of its willingness to address issues like immigration, nationalism, and race, which are political taboos...

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  • France Is Fighting Its Own Taboos
    Huffington Post – ICWA Trustee Julie Barlow and past Fellow Jean-Benoît Nadeau have co-authored an article about the political challenges that France now faces in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks.  Barlow and Nadeau have written extensively about French language and conversation and they posit that the issues that the attacks have brought into the spotlight,...

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  • Jean-Benoit Nadeau Newsletters
    Fellowship Years: 1998-2000 Fellowship Topic: France and Globalization Fellowship Area: France Something Has Changed Suspicious Move An Infidel at the Mosque The World is their Terroir Dirty Business La Francophonie: Is it Franco-Phoney? Why the French Resist Globalization: Setting the Terms Of Bones, Caves and History The Many Faces of France War Time Memories Part I: The Persecution...

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