Why the filmmaker’s depiction of early-20th-century anti-Semitism in ‘J’accuse’ is, with reservations, ‘important and beautiful’.
A close reading of the philosophical career, and influence, of France’s most ridiculed public intellectual.
Elliot Ackerman’s latest book about the fall of Kabul establishes him as a master of his genre.
France’s left declares its loyalty to a dark, antisemitic past.
Éric Zemmour, eyeing the presidency, tries to rehabilitate the wartime Vichy regime as part of a campaign filled with provocations.
Already, the candidate’s violations of French Jewish moral values are perilous and obscene.
How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. We asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found.
In 1981 Grasset publishes L’Idéologie Française, Lévy’s denunciation of “fascism in the colors of France.” The author quickly becomes the center...
In 1988, Bernard-Henri Lévy publishes his second novel, Les derniers jours de Charles Baudelaire, which fails to win the Prix Goncourt...
The morally minded French public intellectual applies 21st-century chutzpah to our radical age.
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