Few have made the case for liberal interventionism more consistently than Bernard-Henri Lévy. Despite the disasters of Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, the French public intellectual’s worldview has remained largely unchanged. But with the Taliban now in control of Afghanistan — and signs of resistance dwindling — is he still convinced the West was right to invade? He joined Freddie Sayers in our London studio to discuss his new book, The Will to See. An edited transcript is below. The worldview you espouse and are famous for, what we might call liberal interventionism, seems more out of fashion than at any point in the past 30 years. Do you feel you now write in a spirit of defiance?I never was concerned with being out of…
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Article published in UnHerd, October 11, 2021
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