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  PREVAIL REVIEW / Sunday Pages: "Liberty Enlightening the World" A statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Greg Olear Jul 26 The PREVAIL Review: Dog Days I am on vacation. Beginning on July 26, I will run pieces from the PREVAIL archives every day until resuming new material on August 7. During those 12 days, new subscribers will receive 15 percent off the purchase of an annual subscription . With a paid subscription, you can join the lovely PREVAIL community and participate in the conversation. Thanks, as always, for your support! And not to jinx it, but when I go on vacation, important things DO seem to happen… This piece originally ran on March 23, 2025. 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...

  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’...