Results for “Désir

Bernard-Henri Levy: ‘I’ve always found it quite shocking and beautiful to speak to one’s enemy’

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The Times of Israel, June 10, 2017

On recent trip to Israel, French-Jewish intellectual promoted his new book on Judaism and explained what it’s like to be a modern-day Jonah.

Farewell to Claude Lanzmann

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, July 12, 2018

Like Orpheus, Lanzmann was an untamed poet for whom the verses were steel rails, birch forests, silences, names.

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.

A Road Under Fire

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, August 06, 2020

We have entered a world in which a thinker who is not beholden to a party, a community, or an authority other than his own has become an alien concept.

The United States Serves Up Kurdistan to Iran on a Silver Platter

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 18, 2017

‘We should not have abandoned Kurdistan, the only real pole of stability in the region’.

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani Speaks

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 29, 2017

The day after his successful independence referendum, the commander of the Peshmerga talks with Bernard-Henri Lévy about Kurdistan’s neighbors Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, French President Macron, and the future of his people.

Israel’s Genius, and Its Bad Shepherds

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, March 21, 2023

The Jewish state is an idea, which is why it will survive its present crisis.

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.

Why a French philosopher wants to stop Brexit

Simon Kuper, Financial Times, May 25, 2018

But is Bernard-Henri Lévy at odds with a France that sees opportunity in the UK’s departure?

Bernard-Henri Lévy and the Heroes of Ukraine

Cathy Young, The Bulwark, November 02, 2022

The French intellectual’s new film, "Why Ukraine", puts the war in the context of Western history.