Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky is a professor of history at the University of Houston's Honors College. His most recent book is Boswell's Enlightenment.

Stories by Robert Zaretsky

Emmanuel Macron with students during the inauguration of an apprentice training centre in Tours on March 14, 2018. (BENOIT TESSIER/AFP/Getty Images)

Everyone in France Wants to Claim the Legacy of 1968

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Robert Zaretsky

April 18, 2018, 1:55 PM

Emmanuel Macron about to board a train on January 26, 2018 in Orcines, France. (THIERRY ZOCCOLAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Macron’s Been Working on the Railroad

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Robert Zaretsky

April 4, 2018, 6:47 PM

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis waits for Indonesia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi during an honor cordon at the Pentagon March 26, 2018 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

James Mattis Is an Ancient Roman Action Hero

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Robert Zaretsky

March 27, 2018, 1:29 PM

Emmanuel Macron gestures as he gives a speech during a campaign meeting in Marseille on April 1, 2017. (Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images)

Emmanuel Macron Wants YOU for the French Army

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Robert Zaretsky

February 21, 2018, 3:21 PM

Johnny Hallyday performs at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain on March 8, 2016. (Xavi Torrent/WireImage)

The Voice of France’s Materialist, America-Loving, Rock ‘n’ Roll Silent Majority Is Dead

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Robert Zaretsky

December 7, 2017, 1:11 PM

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