Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, a propaganda film dedicated to discrediting the War on Terror, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

* Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, a propaganda film dedicated to discrediting the War on Terror, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. One can relish Christopher Hitchens's jibe at Moore's popularity abroad. Europeans, said Hitchens, "think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken ... as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities." One's relish must be tempered, however, by the reflection that Europeans do indeed think of Moore as a shrewd and honest analyst of America and its discontents. Moore's books are best-sellers here, but they take their place in a scrum of agitated political best-sellers that cover the spectrum. In Europe, he stands alone, as Gospel. Remember when alienated American writers used to look like Henry James?