In an October 2020 speech, French President Emmanuel Macron identified an existential threat he claimed was stirring up division among citizens and undermining the country’s cultural heritage. “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States” were to blame, he said.
Then-French Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer echoed Macron’s sentiments. He warned, “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities.”
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