The Maison Française was pleased to partner with the French-American Foundation and the Proust Society of America, a program of the Center for fiction, to bring you this conversation on the work of Marcel Proust between Antoine Compagnon (Columbia University, Collège de France) and acclaimed journalist, lecturer and author, Adam Gopnik.
Below are some photographs of the conversation on the work of Marcel Proust between Professor Antoine Compagnon (Columbia University, Collège de France) and acclaimed journalist, lecturer and author Adam Gopnik that took place on October 28.
Barack Obama’s election has created high expectations in Europe, and has fueled hopes that the new administration would bring about major changes compared to the Bush administration. To what extent has American domestic and foreign policy really begun to change nine months after President Obama took office? Does Europe misconstrue the underlying forces in American society and politics that limit the extent of change possible under President Obama? From environmental to economic and security issues, Professors Walter Russell Mead and Yannick Mireur will compare and contrast changes and continuities in the Bush and Obama administrations, and will discuss the meaning of the Euro-U.S. alliance under the Obama administration and explore the viability of a unified West in a multi-polar world.
13. – The proposed U.S. health care reform is designed to eliminate the problems that “ail” the system. This reform has naturally led to a host of questions and concerns. Political controversy aside, it is instructive to take a closer look at some of the issues that have been a source of longstanding controversy, both in the U.S. and in France.
1. – There is no doubt that the proposed reform of the American health care system is an inflammatory and divisive issue in the U.S. The question of health care reform heated up even more this summer. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton – and his wife Hillary – were unsuccessful in their 1994 attempt to establish universal health care for all Americans. President Obama has learned the political lessons of this failure. While he has clearly made health care reform one of his top priorities, he did not deliver a bill drafted in secret to the lawmakers as a “fait accompli” but instead articulated the broad principles and left the details to Congress.
The risk is as great as the plan is ambitious: while the economic downturn is now favorable to a reform that the majority of Americans – at least before the summer – were in favor of, opponents of Barack Obama would like nothing more than to hand him a stinging political defeat on this issue. A defeat on health care would be particularly sweet given that President Obama has already presented the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (the “AAHC”) as the landmark act of his presidency, and that there is a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and Senate. The AAHC is thus a strategic target, even before assessing the need for health care legislation in America.
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