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Bernard-Henri Lévy – ICON : Special IRF Roundtable & Conversation (October 27, 2021)

Posted on Sunday 28 April 2024

French philosopher, filmmaker, activist, and author, Bernard-Henri Lévi speaks as he reports on his travels from some of the most...

Bernard-Henri Lévy – Talks at Google : Left in Dark Times (September 24, 2008)

Posted on Sunday 28 April 2024

Bernard-Henri Levy visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the...

A Jewish Far-Right Pundit Splits the French Jewish Community as He Rises

Roger Cohen, The New York Times, October 25, 2021

Éric Zemmour, eyeing the presidency, tries to rehabilitate the wartime Vichy regime as part of a campaign filled with provocations.

The Last Humanist

Nathan Gardels, Noema magazine, October 29, 2021

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy looks back on his life and times.

Seeing Through the Eyes of a Traveling Truth-Teller

Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal, October 28, 2021

As we find out in his new book, “The Will to See: Dispatches From a World of Misery and Hope”, Lévy has put himself in harm’s way in the dangerous and troubled places that he writes about, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

The French Intellectual Who Refuses to Look Away

Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, October 25, 2021

Rich societies were turning inward even before the pandemic, but Bernard-Henri Lévy won’t let them ignore atrocities elsewhere.

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.

The Will to See : a Conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy & Jeffrey Goldberg (October 28, 2021)

Posted on Sunday 28 April 2024

Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg is joined by philosopher, filmmaker, activist, and author Bernard-Henri Lévy to discuss “The Will...

Israel

Unfailingly present whenever Israel is in danger, Bernard-Henri Lévy has rolled up his sleeves since the 1970s to find peaceful solutions. But when the philosopher thinks about Israel, he is also thinking about the entire world. And when he becomes involved in Bosnia, Georgia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, or Afghanistan that involvement reflects his thinking about Israel. The post-Holocaust principle of “Never Again” inhabits his words and deeds with respect to Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

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.