[Image credit: https://existentialcafe.blog/2020/06/23/am-i-a-bad-person-examining-the-importance-of-knowing-the-difference-between-guilt-and-shame/] Gisèle Pelicot, a French woman, was drugged and raped by her husband, Dominique Pelicot and numerous other men recruited by him for over a decade. The trial took place in Avignon from September 2 to December 16, 2024, and ended with 51 verdicts, including a maximum sentence of 20 years for Dominique …
by Calvin Mouw 
How the Far Right Shield Themselves from Reality  It’s always a puzzle when you see people supporting candidates and parties that logic dictates, they should not. France just had legislative elections on Sunday, July 7, and the New Popular Front left coalition in France finished first, President Emmanual Macron’s center coalition finished second, and the far-right National …
by Calvin Mouw 
The 2024 Romanian Community Summit took place on Saturday, May 25 at the Logos Christian Academy in Chicago. It was a great program with a tremendous turnout. I highly recommend you attend next year’s event if you can make it. You can see videos of the conference on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/live/KE8PGapaMLc The highlight of the …
by Calvin Mouw 
“The enshrinement of the right to abortion in the French Constitution has been a historic demand of feminist organizations since I can remember. But for the past decade, this demand has had little resonance with the French population. Many felt that the Constitution would not have to be invoked to defend this right. I would …
by Calvin Mouw 
“The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore.†― Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within “In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke …
by Calvin Mouw