In proposing a tax-cut law last week, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde bluntly advised the French people to abandon their “old national habit.”“France is a country that thinks,” she told the National Assembly. “There is hardly an ideology that we haven’t turned into a theory. We have in our libraries enough to talk about for centuries to come. This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves.”
Leave it to Bernard Henri-Levy to find the right words:
“This is the sort of thing you can hear in cafe conversations from morons who drink too much,” said Mr. Lévy
