Anti-Americanism Update

The New Criterion reports on a new history textbook that is going to be in French and German classrooms in September:

The Times quotes Guillaume Le Quintrec, the leader of the French team of historians, who described Histoire/Geschichte as “unashamedly pro-European ideology” underwritten by distrust and resentment of the United States. The book, which opens in 1945, presents the Cold War as a rivalry between morally equivalent states bent on pursuing an arms race in order to maintain a “balance of terror.” Both the United States and the Soviet Union, the book assures readers, sought to “impose themselves by an omnipresent propaganda” involving “gross exaggerations and simplifications.”