Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky is a professor of history at the University of Houston’s Honors College and the author of Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.

Articles by Robert Zaretsky
An illustration of French President Emmanuel Macron and the word emmerder.

Macron’s Vulgarity Is a Big Deal
Decoder |
Robert Zaretsky
An inflatable craft carrying migrant men, women, and children crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel on July 22.

The Channel Is Now a Charnel House
Argument |
Robert Zaretsky
Foreign Policy illustration/Zach Gibson/Dominique Berretty/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

Make America Existentialist Again
Argument |
Robert Zaretsky
French President Emmanuel Macron applauds France's Thibaut Pinot winning on the finish line of the fourteenth stage of the 106th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Tarbes and Tourmalet Bareges, in Tourmalet Bareges on July 20, 2019.

The Tour de France Is a Tour of Macron’s Problems
Argument |
Robert Zaretsky
French President Emmanuel Macron during the first day of the European Union summit meeting in Brussels on June 20.

Emmanuel Macron, Part Deux
Argument |
Robert Zaretsky
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