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U.S. ‘Did Not Fail’ In Afghanistan, Legendary French Writer Says

Richard Miniter and David Martosko, Newsweek, October 28, 2021

After Afghanistan, America must not retreat from the world, says the famed French Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy.

The Last Humanist

Nathan Gardels, Noema magazine, October 29, 2021

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy looks back on his life and times.

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.

Eric Zemmour’s Desecration of the Name

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 25, 2021

Already, the candidate’s violations of French Jewish moral values are perilous and obscene.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Defining oneself by an identity is an impoverishment of what you are”

Freddie Hayward, The New Statesman, October 20, 2021

The French intellectual on culture wars and global crises.

Bernard-Henri Lévy – CNN In the Arena : the man who led the world to war in Lybia (March 31, 2011)

Posted on Saturday 18 May 2024

Bernard-Henri Lévy played a high-profile role in convincing French President Nicolas Sarkozy to take the lead in recognizing the rebels...

Bernard-Henri Lévy – Charlie Rose (January 12, 2015)

Posted on Saturday 18 May 2024

Author Bernard-Henri Lévy discusses the situation in Paris following the terrorist attacks, and what those attacks mean for France and...

Israel

Unfailingly present whenever Israel is in danger, Bernard-Henri Lévy has rolled up his sleeves since the 1970s to find peaceful solutions. But when the philosopher thinks about Israel, he is also thinking about the entire world. And when he becomes involved in Bosnia, Georgia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, or Afghanistan that involvement reflects his thinking about Israel. The post-Holocaust principle of “Never Again” inhabits his words and deeds with respect to Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

Afghanistan

Described here are eight trips to Afghanistan made by a French writer over a period of 40 years, the country and its unceasing tragedy ever in his heart. The abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban is considered a wound and a stain by countless humanitarians, academics, archaeologists, soldiers, diplomats, and ordinary citizens, as it is for all lovers of liberty. But the fight goes on. Yesterday with the legendary Ahmad Shah Massoud; today with his son, the new Lion of Panjshir.

Kurdistan

From Peshmerga to The Battle of Mosul, from The Empire and the Five Kings to Another Idea of the World, Bernard-Henri Lévy has never ceased to plead the cause of the Kurds, a long-suffering people repeatedly abandoned by their western allies. To the Kurds who fought ISIS and count the mountains as their only friends, Lévy promises : “I will stand by your side until the day I die.”