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  Sunday Pages: "La Liberté éclairant le monde" A Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Greg Olear Mar 23 Dear Reader, Raphaël Glucksmann is the son of the philosopher André Glucksmann , the founder of France’s Place Publique party, and a member of the European Parliament. Last weekend, in response to the Trump/Musk government seizing the phone and denying entry to a French scientist for daring to write messages critical of King Donald the Snowflake, the 45 year old made international headlines for making a provocative—and obviously tongue-in-cheek—statement: “To the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants,”   he said , “who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom….Give us back the Statue of Liberty. We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home.” MAGA—congenitally incapable of understanding nuance, irony, or satire—thought Glucksmann meant this literally. Enter Trump’...