Results for “France

Radical Evokes This

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Purple, October 17, 2017

The radical party in the memory of the twentieth century is synonymous with everything that is most mediocre, most corrupt, most hostile to greatness in French politics.

City of revolution

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Purple, May 22, 2020

Does Paris have a distinctive spirit of protest and revolution? Is BHL's vision of Paris as literary as it is political?

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.

Public Enemies

Tim Souster, Financial Times, February 07, 2011

In "Public enemies" both write best about their professional enthusiasms: Houellebecq on writing; Lévy on philosophy.

‘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.

Bernard-Henri Levy: ‘I’ve always found it quite shocking and beautiful to speak to one’s enemy’

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The Times of Israel, June 10, 2017

On recent trip to Israel, French-Jewish intellectual promoted his new book on Judaism and explained what it’s like to be a modern-day Jonah.

Celebrity philosopher ‘BHL’ talks gritty warzone films and rising anti-Semitism

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The Times of Israel, January 10, 2020

From the Balkans to IS in Kurdistan, French thinker/filmmaker Bernard-Henri Levy’s films document the harsh reality of combat front lines. Now showing in NYC and LA through Jan. 18