Why We Don’t Vacation Like the French
BY EZRA KLEIN | Dateline: July 19, 2007
Poster for Jacques Tati’s Hulot, the hero of VACANCES DE M. HULOT, who at one time epitomized the French idiosyncratic vacationer | Originally posted at THE AMERICAN PROSPECT
How come Americans don’t take a month off every summer, even though we’d like to? Blame it on individualism.
The most astonishing revelations in Michael Moore’s Sicko have nothing to do with healthcare. They’re about vacation time. French vacation time, to be precise. [Read more →]
