Europe’s far-right challenge

When the French magazine Minute last week ran a front page depicting Guyanan-born justice minister Christiane Taubira with the caption “Clever as a monkey, Taubira gets the banana back,” it sank to new depths of racism. Implausible claims that this was “satire” failed to stem a genuine wave of revulsion and condemnation that swept across the country. Prosecutions for incitement to racial hatred will follow, and even...