France's bonkers election

Macron vs. Le Pen is unprecedented. And it may be driving French voters insane.

Posters for French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
(Image credit: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

France is going crazy over its presidential election.

Facing off in the May 7 run-off is the boy wonder centrist technocrat one-time financier Emmanuel Macron and the anti-EU right-wing National Front leader Marine Le Pen. It's crazy.

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.