 Concurrent with this assignment, he was an editor and correspondent for "The Boston Globe" beginning in 1976, where he served on the national and foreign desks, covered the Iranian Revolution and Solidarity in Poland and was the European correspondent based in London from 1983–1987.He has written for numerous magazines, including "The Spectator", "The Economist", "The New Republic", "The Financial Times", "The New Statesman", "The Columbia Journalism Review", and "The National Interest".France made him a chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur for services to journalism at the end of 2013.