Results for “democracy

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.

‘Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism’ by Bernard-Henri Levy

Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times, October 08, 2008

“Left in Dark Times" is an apologia based on ideals and experience and then on a series of critiques of the left’s shortcomings, followed by concrete suggestions for their remedy.

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.

Bernard-Henri Lévy bares his Jewish soul

Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal, January 11, 2017

Philosophers only rarely achieve the celebrity of a rock star or a sports hero, but Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been described as “France’s greatest philosopher,” is an exception.

Bernard-Henri Lévy on Anti-Semitism, the Diaspora and the ‘Miracle’ That Is Israel

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Jewish Journal, March 27, 2019

“The Empire and the Five Kings: America’s Abdication and the Fate of the World,” written by BHL, takes on the implications of 21st-century American Isolationism.

Nuart Retrospective Presents the War Documentaries of Bernard-Henri Lévy

Gerri Miller, Jewish Journal, January 21, 2021

BHL makes cinema verité documentaries from the front lines of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, depicting war in all its brutality to highlight the plight of the oppressed.

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.