Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Columnist

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.

The World Climate Change Conference in 2015.

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Opinion

Stop freaking out about the Paris Agreement

Trump sits with NATO members and leaders

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Opinion

How Trump has already done irreparable damage to NATO

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Opinion

How Trump's budget weaponizes the worst GOP pathologies

Oil barrels at a storage depot in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Opinion

OPEC is dead

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Analysis

The glimmer of hope in Brazil's terrible crisis

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Opinion

Childproof the presidency

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Opinion

Please save us, Paul Ryan

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Opinion

Don't believe China's lies

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Opinion

America needs to stop treating Putin like a supervillain

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Opinion

This is how the Trump administration ends

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Opinion

France is losing its most interesting politician

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Opinion

France's new president is enticingly young — and incredibly boring

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Opinion

How the Senate can clean up the House's health-care mess

Emmanuel Macron speaks in front of The Louvre

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Opinion

The French presidential election proves France is more divided than ever

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Opinion

Republicans are embarrassingly out of touch with what Americans want from health care

Of course consciousness is not an illusion.

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Opinion

Please stop spouting nonsense theories about the meaning of consciousness

Posters for French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.

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Opinion

France's bonkers election

A president's early days in office are the most consequential.

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Opinion

100 days of Trump: The worst of populism and the worst of the establishment

Pope Francis gave TED talk. You read that right.

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Opinion

Pope Francis' TED talk was ridiculous. It was also great.

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Opinion

Paul Ryan, wake up!

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Opinion

How Theresa May can win her game of chicken with the EU

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Opinion

France's new political divide

Masked gunman guard the Champs Elysees Avenue after a gunman opened fire.

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Opinion

What the Paris shooting could mean for the French presidential election

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Opinion

Venezuela's socialist hell

Jeff Bezos always puts the customer first.

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Feature

What the companies of tomorrow can learn from Amazon today

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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Opinion

China's president is playing Donald Trump like a fiddle

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Opinion

Theresa May just called for a snap election. That's a genius move.

Tapping into the "good immigrant" debate.

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Opinion

The radical idea that could actually fix America's broken immigration system

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Opinion

Why President Trump really should be the world's policeman

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Opinion

How conservatives can win over Americans on a new health-care bill

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Opinion

Utah has an important lesson for progressives on upward mobility

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Opinion

Why prosecuting the makers of the Planned Parenthood sting videos sets a dangerous precedent

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Opinion

What America can learn from the French health-care system

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Opinion

Republicans can still fix health care. Here's how.

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Opinion

Why the GOP's mortifying health-care failure is great for America — and Republicans

Not what progressives would have wanted.

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Opinion

If you didn't like the Christian right, you'll really hate the post-Christian right