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‘New Philosopher’; Bernard-Henri Levy

Stewart McBride, The CS Monitor, January 20, 1983

Levy is perhaps the best known and most iconoclastic of France's ''Nouveaux Philosophes,'' During the last six years, Levy has personally waged war against socialism in three controversial best sellers.

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?

In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Atlantic, November 01, 2005

A twenty-first-century pilgrim ends a year-long journey where the seventeenth-century Pilgrims ended theirs—on the coast of New England, not far from where his travels began.

In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Atlantic, October 01, 2005

From storm systems in Florida to those in Washington, D.C. Continuation of Bernard-Henri Lévy's road trip through the United States.

Road Trip: Part II

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Atlantic, June 01, 2005

What would Tocqueville say? A journey continues, from Seattle to San Diego via Alcatraz and an obesity clinic.

The New American Empire

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Atlantic, January 24, 2019

What is the internet if not a modern panopticon? But it is a two-sided one, a panopticon that can be turned around.

Philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy speaks of his role in France’s push against Kadafi

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2011

Levy is famous for his activism. The astonishing story of him marching across bombed Libyan cities has many especially fascinated and infuriated.

Looking for Europe, Finding America Adrift

James Kirchick, Tablet, November 08, 2018

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s one-man show ‘Looking for Europe’ makes the case for America better than most Americans ever do.

The Honor of Israel

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, June 27, 2018

Full text of a speech delivered before the Academic College of Netanya, June 18, 2018, upon receiving an Honoris Causa doctorate.