Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Some of my favorite Realignment episodes focus on how the United States can learn from the

experiences and history of other countries. Most of the conversations on the show have focused on

the United Kingdom and the case of today's episode we're focusing on France. Speaking with

the author and journalist Nabila Romdani, but her new book Fixing France How to Repair a Broken

Roblox. The challenges facing France include everything from a debate over whether it's parliamentary,

system combined with its powerful presidency, whether this model of governance is up to the

challenges of the early 21st century. We of course are going to speak about debates over identity,

political correctness, slash wokeness, which has taken a particularly interesting turn in France,

and of course the country's debates over its foreign policy in Africa and Eastern Europe

and the country's bottom place in Europe. All this is happening under the leadership of

French President Emmanuel Macron, who famously came out of nowhere to defeat the two established

political parties in France. One of the central questions of his presidency has been

can a renewed centrist vision of French politics offer an alternative to both those establishments

he defeated and populist to his right and his left. All that said, I think there's a lot of

groups and stuff here and I definitely would love to explore these topics on a deeper level. So

of course right in, with any comments, questions, concerns, if you have any suggestions.

Huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation, who's supporting the work of this

park for supporting the work of this podcast, hope you all enjoy the conversation.

Nabila Romdani, welcome to the realignment.

Thank you for having me, Marshall.

Yeah, I'm really excited to speak with you. I mentioned this to you before we started recording,

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