
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Fellow
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about religion, culture, politics, economics, business and technology. He was a columnist at The Week, a contributor at Forbes, a blogger at the Patheos Catholic portal and a business and economics columnist at the French news website Atlantico.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about religion, culture, politics, economics, business and technology. He was a columnist at The Week, a contributor at Forbes, a blogger at the Patheos Catholic portal and a business and economics columnist at the French news website Atlantico.
His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commentary, The Atlantic, Quartz, The Daily Beast, Le Figaro, The American Interest, The American Scene and even Fashionista.
Previously, he co-created the technology analysis service BI Intelligence and worked as a freelance financial analyst covering technology.
He holds an MSc in management from HEC Paris and lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.
There Is No Such Thing as ‘Health Care’
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

The term “health care” covers so many different realities that trying to embrace them all at once — whether through acts of Congress or just discussion — is doomed at the start.
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National Review Online / October 5, 2017
America’s Francification: La Fin
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

America would do well by building a stronger bipartisan commitment to family policy, and by cultivating a renewed appreciation for America’s founding ideals.
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National Review Online / September 27, 2017
Do Our Fights Over Pope Francis Have to be This Dumb?
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

In today’s intra-Catholic debates, the failure is not one of communication; it is one of charity.
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America Magazine / September 25, 2017
Washington Wealth and the American Desert? Not Yet, But It’s on the Horizon
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

The expansion of the central megalopolis and the relative desertification of the rest is a feature of Francification. A massive decentralization, not just of political power but of human capital, has long been an American distinctive.
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National Review Online / September 22, 2017
I am Catholic—and I Don’t Know What I’m Supposed to Believe About Immigration
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Catholics are split between two camps that seem intent on shouting at each other, and there are serious questions that men and women of profound faith and genuine intellect on both sides must consider.
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America Magazine / September 15, 2017
America’s New Normal Is France’s Old Normal
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

If Donald Trump’s victory showed something, it is that a general and widespread loss of confidence in America and its future has taken hold of voters.
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National Review Online / September 14, 2017
The Peculiar Conservatism of the Lonely American
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Conservatism offers up Burke’s little platoons as the engines of social progress, but in a society turned lonely, that offer becomes meaningless because it stops being relevant to people’s everyday experiences.
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National Review Online / August 30, 2017
America’s Francification, Part Trois: Secularism
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

America is not secularizing in the same way as France has, but its own path toward a watered-down religious middle, led by an aggressive and resourceful secular minority, may lead to the same outcome.
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National Review Online / August 24, 2017
America’s Francification, Part Deux
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Increasingly, it’s our elite, central institutions — Congress, the Ivy League — that grant status and dole out resources to the favored few.
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National Review Online / August 18, 2017
The Francification of America: The American Le Pen and the French-style Realignment
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

A Trumpified American politics would introduce something that has long existed in Europe but rarely in the United States: class-based parties.
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National Review Online / August 11, 2017