The Corner

French Frogs

My NRO article today — on why we call the French “frogs” — owes a lot to The Corner. Many moons ago, Peter Robinson and I had an exchange here about the joys and how-tos of catching frogs with your kids. When we bumped into each other months later, Peter asked me how it was going with the frogs — and I assumed he was talking about my book on the French. We proceeded to have an awkward conversation until we realized he was talking about amphibians and I was talking about Gaullists. Anyway, if you’ve ever wondered how the French got their nickname, read this.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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