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‘Israel Alone’: All Roads Lead to Antisemitism

Alan D. Abbey, Hadassah Magazine, August 28, 2024

Passion, anger, fear, sadness, steadfastness—a score of emotions—pour out of French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy in his concise, impactful new book, 'Israel Alone'.

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.

Spinoza’s Ethics

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Purple, May 10, 2011

BHL evokes an extract from a work that seems to him to deal with something crucial in today's world. He introduces an extract from Spinoza's 'Ethics'.

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.

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.

“Every Hour Counts:” Bernard-Henri Lévy Sounds the Alarm for “Total Victory” in Ukraine

David Suissa, Jewish Journal, April 27, 2023

The overriding message of his new film, “Slava Ukraini,” is that the civilized world cannot afford anything less than “total victory” for Ukraine, lest it puts us at risk of another world war.

The Genius of Literature

Paul Berman, Tablet, May 16, 2017

Bernard-Henri Lévy draws from the well of late-18th-century French philosopher Chateaubriand for a broad defense of the aesthetics and morals of liberalism.

After the Coronavirus, Who Do We Want to Be?

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, April 28, 2020

‘It’s a good bet that, for better or for worse, tomorrow’s world will not be the same as yesterday’s’.

Epiphanies from Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Foreign Policy, January 02, 2013

"Arab Winter" is a stupid slogan and the West needs to get over its China fixation, says France's most prominent intellectual.