ABSTRACT
As our coaches used to say, “OK, people, settle down and listen up.” We have been enjoying a lovely little spate of French-bashing here lately. Jonah Goldberg of The National Review, who admits that French-bashing is “shtick”—as it is to many American comedians—has popularized the phrase “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” to describe the French. It gets a lot less attractive than that.
