Hudson Institute fellow Marie-Josee Kravis, writing in The Wall Street Journal on April 10, linked the student riots in France (against a youth labor law designed to make hiring more flexible) to biased French college textbooks. A study published by professor Barbara Lefebvre and journalist Eve Bonnivard, she notes, shows these texts to be slanted against globalization and inclining toward skepticism and fear of market forces (not to mention profound anti-Americanism and some complacency about terrorism).

This indoctrination surely figures in what Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, after the government