Bernard-Henri Lévy

Early '70s. A bar at the Place Saint-Georges in Paris, where the shadow of André Breton still hung in the air and where our master of masters, Jean-Toussaint Desanti, was fond of coming. In the atmosphere, there's still a bit of this "spirit of May," or this "feeling of May,"...

An avalanche of reactions, readers' letters and commentaries followed my last column.

So, let me make things clear.

The Front National is not a party of the right, but of the extreme right.

Between the right and the extreme right, there is the same difference of nature, the same...

At the time -- Sunday night -- that I am writing this column, the Front National looks to be the big winner of this first round of the presidential elections in France.

It is winning politically because it has taken back the voters -- and then...

Madame Le Pen encourages boos when she mentions my name at her rallies.

She never misses a chance to shower me with insults, sometimes rather filthy ones.

And this woman who feeds on all that afflicts the French soul, who speaks of France only to describe it as debased, humiliated,...

There is North Korea and its autistic tyrant, equipped with a by and large operational nuclear arsenal.

There is Pakistan, armed with warheads -- no one knows how many, nor precisely where they are located, nor what guarantees we have that they will not, one day, fall into the hands...

Marseille.

A symposium on the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence, organized by the French magazine Marianne.

I am facing Zohra Drif, a senior member of the Bouteflika hierarchy who was, in her youth, an FLN [National Liberation Front] militant and a terrorist whose participation in the so-called Milk Bar attack...

The French police behaved well. I know that, down at the bar on the corner, there was a lot of talk about the RAID intervention group's methods, the way the siege was drawn out, the brutality of the assault. And I know there are armchair investigators, prophets after the fact,...

So France is a country where, in 2012, in the country's third largest city, one can shoot at a Jewish school and kill, point blank, children there.

We must hope that the investigation will clarify the circumstances of this tragedy, the identity of the killer, and his...

It's been ten years, almost to the day, since I returned from Afghanistan with the "Report" Jacques Chirac, Lionel Jospin and Hubert Védrine had commissioned, in which I described the possible contribution of France to the political, civic, cultural and military reconstruction of this country ruined by decades of dictatorship,...

The power belongs to the law.

And to the institutions of the Republic.

Thus the Constitutional Council's invalidation of the law voted by the two Houses aiming to penalize the denial of genocides is, in the eyes of the law, and until the same two Houses reconsider it, the last...

On March 19th, it will be a year, day for day, since squadrons of French planes, later followed by British, American and Arab aircraft, saved Benghazi from what would have been its inevitable destruction.

Well, things being what they are and if the international community does not pull itself together,...

When Angelina Jolie asked me to join her in presenting the avant-première of her film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, I began, of course, by asking to view it. But once I had, I did not hesitate for a second.

Because, really, what a story!

Here is...

The Greek Parlement's vote, during the night of Sunday to Monday, on the austerity plan the European Union demanded as a prerequisite to the release of a new installment of financial assistance was inevitable. Clearly, the alternative to the austerity plan was, in the short term, exclusion from the eurozone,...

This new fuss the Le Pens have orchestrated about their difficulty in collecting the 500 signatures the law requires of every candidate for the presidency of the Republic is a trap.

For one of two things is true.

Either the Le Pens are not play-acting;...

In Europe, the event didn't cause as much of a stir as it should have.

Yet it's at least as important as the recent performances of Hollande and Sarkozy.

In a word, Mme Le Pen, third in the race for the presidency, hot on the heals of the other...

Unfortunately, I'll have to return to the case of the Front National and the fascination it seems to exercise, once again, on the left as well as the right, on the working class no less than on conservative voters.

For the time being, notwithstanding a more detailed analysis but without...

Could we be living in an era of such madness, one that has lost its compass and its points of reference to such an extent that this affair of one of the three major rating agencies' withdrawal of America's and then France's triple "A" has taken on such importance?

Among its nations, Europe is banishing Greece for failing -- it's true, big time -- to fulfill the rules of good economic and financial governance.

A decade ago, it excommunicated Austria -- and with good reason -- when its conservative leaders entered into a coalition with Jorg Haider, leader of...

Are these people really incapable of comprehending? Or are they just pretending not to understand?

The law whose purpose is to penalize negationist revisionism, voted before Christmas by the French parliament, does not propose to write history in the place of historians. And this for the simple reason that...

This is the man who took it upon himself to restore and glorify the tomb, on the banks of Lake Tiberias, of Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, also known as the miracle worker, one of the principle figures who recorded the Talmud, in the 2nd century A.D.

This is the...