Zohran Mamdani and the Centuries-Old French Bargain
In the winter of 1789, French aristocrat Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre addressed the National Assembly with a proposition that would define the status of Jewish citizens for centuries to come. His decree was simple yet restrictive: “To the Jews as individuals, everything; to the Jews as a nation, nothing.” It was a bargain of emancipation in … Read more