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" ... July 14 marks Bastille Day, the day when the French, and the French at heart, wave Le Tricolore in celebration. The Bastille in Paris was a potent symbol of the ancien régime, and the storming of the infamous fortress and prison on July 14, 1789 fuelled the French Revolution. Calls for “liberté, égalité, fraternité” echoed around the world, and émigré French chefs, who had worked in the kitchens of the nobility, had to seek new opportunities abroad, taking their formidable skills with them. ... "
" ... What we are witnessing in these last few years, really from the early post-Soviet period but increasingly under Putin, is the age-old divide and rule principle of ancien regime Imperialism. It never gets presented as an imposition on others but rather as a defense against the brutish tendencies of excitable, tribalist, primitive folk: a defense of Russians against Ukrainian fascists, a defense of Abkhazians or South Ossetians against mad-dog Georgian nationalists, a defense of Armenians and Azerbaijans from each other, a defense of Chechens against extremist Islam. The civilized and civilizing referee here is inevitably the Russians. Now, you might argue the prima facie absurdity of such a claim – so much blood over so many years – but that is the recurrent implication, is it not? Nobody stops to ask how these conflicts began, what mysterious unidentifiable match lit the fires of conflict repeatedly. ... "
" ... With Apple TV+ and Disney+ streaming services launched this month, and HBO Max and Comcast's Peacock arriving about two months after the Super Bowl, this may be the last year of TV's ancien regime as cord-cutting continues and the old cable bundles wither. ... "