FRANCE

Philosophy Won't Save You. Straight Talk From Someone Who's Been There Will.

France's male crisis splits along the urban-rural and ethnic fault lines that define the country. In the banlieues surrounding Paris, Lyon, and Marseille, young men of North African and West African descent face a triple bind: they are French by nationality, Arab or African by heritage, and neither by full acceptance. The 2005 banlieue riots were a masculine explosion — young men burning cars because the society that educated them in liberté, égalité, fraternité denied them all three. Twenty years later, the conditions are largely unchanged, and radicalization offers some of these men the only framework that takes their anger seriously.

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