France stole my idea.

A while back, I said I'd like to see a reality TV show based on a tough, retro, Socratic, law school classroom. Now I see there's this French reality TV show:

Twelve girls and 12 boys ages 14 to 16 have been sequestered in a former seminary in the middle of France and plunged into the rigid, harsh French public school system of the 1950's.

According to the NYT, the French just love this show and they love it because of their "nostalgia ... for a less confusing age."

(More bad news for Kerry, no? Even the French don't like nuance anymore.)