France in the Time of the Witch Hunt: Christian Singer on the 2001 Law
Extracts from a fiercely polemical account of the About-Picard law and the climate that produced it: a text at once very precise and very vague, the two execrable faces of French laïcité, the checklist of habits that will mark a relative as being under a cult's hold, and the parliamentary debate in which one deputy's own warnings dissolve into reassurance.