About “America”

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 Jerusalem Is Crumbling

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 21, 2019

From the Pilgrim founders to Donald Trump, ‘a belief in the exceptional role of an American nation’.

The Kurds, Trump, and the Decline of American Power

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 31, 2017

Why the United States’ inexplicable abandonment of the Kurdish people is ‘the geopolitical equivalent of a stock-market crash’.

After spending the last few years investigating the international jihadi movement in Pakistan, Lévy crossed the Atlantic to retrace Alexis de Toqueville’s journey through America. FP asked him what he’s learned on his travels.

U.S. ‘Did Not Fail’ In Afghanistan, Legendary French Writer Says

Richard Miniter and David Martosko, Newsweek, October 28, 2021

After Afghanistan, America must not retreat from the world, says the famed French Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy.

The bell tolls for us in Kabul

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Spectator, August 29, 2021

The image of the liberal democracies, epitomised by the US, is tragically tarnished.

Past as Prologue

Published in July 2021

Two decades on, as the U.S. prepare to withdraw militarily from Afghanistan, it is time to revisit Lévy’s report, available in English for the first time, and to reflect on what once was hoped and envisioned for the country, as well as what has happened in the years since. Foreword by General David Petraeus.

The Virus and My Friend Bernard

David Samuels, Tablet, September 30, 2020

Q&A with Bernard-Henri Lévy.

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