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Finally, a teenager from Lorraine, Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc), roused the French to resist the English at Orléans.
Resistin, it seems, continues to resist easy interpretations.
The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann says the film proves "that some novels resist adaptation to the core of their beings."
In this moment of American triumphalism, it's hard to resist the temptation to rewrite recent history as the narrative of America's self-reliant, inevitable rise, and to see the future as the story of America's continued ascent into the higher reaches of the New Economy.
It might, however, be possible to resist the grossest forms of jingoism.