Bernard-Henri Lévy

The philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist has long enjoyed celebrity status in France

Graham Elliott

“I DON’T BELIEVE IN HISTORY AS PROGRESS, I do not believe in purity, I do not believe in the ‘good’ society. I believe that man is a failed species.” Philosopher, writer and campaigner for the right of Kurds, Ukrainians and Israelis to live without threat from a belligerent neighbour or fanatically-inclined zealots, Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL) is more than a public intellectual in a French TV studio. He has faced harm on several battlefronts. His reporting presents the facts of war as directly as they can be from a non-combatant point of view. All this in his emblematic chemise blanche déboutonnée and costume noir. Who is he? Lévy was born in Béni Saf, a coastal town in Algeria, in 1948. His parents were of Sephardic origin and pieds-noirs, which is to…

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