Results for “France

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’.

A Monstrous Betrayal

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 10, 2019

Caroline Fourest’s ‘Sisters in Arms’ arrives just in time for the Ottoman Anschluss against Syrian Kurdistan.

Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, December 03, 2019

Why the filmmaker’s depiction of early-20th-century anti-Semitism in ‘J’accuse’ is, with reservations, ‘important and beautiful’.

The Death of Jean Daniel

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 25, 2020

Bernard-Henri Lévy remembers his friend and mentor, the activist and journalist of the ‘Nouvel Observateur’ and doyen of the French left.

A Road Under Fire

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, August 06, 2020

We have entered a world in which a thinker who is not beholden to a party, a community, or an authority other than his own has become an alien concept.

Massoud in Paris

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 12, 2021

Paris shows gratitude to the Afghan hero who tried to stop the Sept. 11 attacks—and whose warnings about Islamist fanaticism remain urgent today.

Sarah Halimi’s Law

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, April 21, 2021

A man who savagely beat and murdered an old Jewish woman while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ is set free because he was high. Another man in France recently received a prison sentence for killing a dog.

The Metaphysics of the Sarah Halimi Affair

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, April 30, 2021

French law must protect people like the murdered Jewish schoolteacher.

Ukraine’s Hero President Z.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 28, 2022

The funnyman who became a warrior and founded a new Europe.

Ukraine and the Jews

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, March 14, 2022

Unlike official Russia, Ukraine is an example of mourning and redemption done right.