The dubious doctor informs us of the Parisian Left’s new lofty mission to overturn the deeply ingrained societal stereotypes concerning rats—as the city’s rat population multiplies by the hour.

It turns out that not everyone in the population or on the city council is unequivocally opposed to rats, according to an article in Le Figaro. The rat problem has become ideological, like practically all others. This broader development may be indirectly related to the downfall of the Soviet Union, after which the ideologically minded had to satisfy themselves with a cause other than Marxism, and found one wherever they could.