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Portrait of Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Purple, May 10, 2011

The rules of the game: names, a collection of names, all of which had one thing in common: they had in one way or another played a part in BHL's intellectual or personal life.

On war and its dehumanization

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Purple, January 09, 2023

As a philosopher, what is BHL's idea of war? Is war fundamentally human? Is man, in the end, a wolf who hunts man? Or is there still hope of eradicating war?

The Death of Jean Daniel

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 25, 2020

Bernard-Henri Lévy remembers his friend and mentor, the activist and journalist of the ‘Nouvel Observateur’ and doyen of the French left.

After the Coronavirus, Who Do We Want to Be?

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, April 28, 2020

‘It’s a good bet that, for better or for worse, tomorrow’s world will not be the same as yesterday’s’.

It’s Time to Take Bernard-Henri Lévy Seriously

Blake Smith, Foreign Policy, April 09, 2021

A close reading of the philosophical career, and influence, of France’s most ridiculed public intellectual.

The Women vs. the Mullahs

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 12, 2022

It’s time for the West to match the bravery of the protesters, and stop accommodating their executioners.

The Nomad

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Tablet, January 14, 2022

Q&A with Bernard-Henri Lévy about The Will to see.

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Journey From Barricades to War Zones

Janine di Giovanni, Foreign Policy, November 13, 2021

In “The Will to See,” France’s great proponent of humanitarian interventionism chronicles the world’s forgotten wars.

The French Intellectual Who Refuses to Look Away

Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, October 25, 2021

Rich societies were turning inward even before the pandemic, but Bernard-Henri Lévy won’t let them ignore atrocities elsewhere.

From Les Indes rouges (1973) to The Will To See (2020), Bangladesh remains close to the heart of Bernard-Henri Lévy. The only Muslim country led today by a woman is a model of tolerant Islam, sheltering a million Rohingya refugees driven out of Burma by the military junta. About this country at the mercy of climate change and western consumerism Lévy declared after his 2020 visit that it was “on the front line of the battle against radical Islam, poverty, migratory chaos, and ecological cataclysm.”

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