Results for “Kabul”

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.

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.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Cancel culture is churning out imbeciles”

Celia Walden, The Telegraph, October 15, 2021

The author known as BHL mulls over cross-Channel relations, the wars worth fighting and how to find hope in a world of misery.

American Honor

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 03, 2021

Even in the midst of deep humiliation, there are still signs of the exceptional nation I’ve loved since childhood.

Biography (1981-1987)

In 1981 Grasset publishes L’Idéologie Française, Lévy’s denunciation of “fascism in the colors of France.” The author quickly becomes the center...

The West Goes Home

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, August 03, 2021

President Chirac, Gen. Petraeus, and my 2002 report on Afghanistan.

The Afghan Resistance has begun

Bernard-Henri Lévy, UnHerd, August 21, 2021

Trump dreamed of it. But it’s coming true with Biden.

The Afghan Who Won’t Surrender to the Taliban

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Wall Street Journal, August 23, 2021

Ahmad Massoud leads the resistance in the province of Panjshir. Can he and his fighters hold out?