Throughout much of last week, hundreds of thousands of students in France were angrily protesting. They have been joined by the major French labor unions, which are threatening a general strike. And what is this all about? It is all about a new law in France that allows a company to fire a person under the age of 26, without cause, within two years of being hired. Wow. Imagine that. You might get fired from your first job. As it happens, the whole point of the law was to encourage companies to hire young people. The unemployment rate among young...