A French Intellectual Star Considers What's Right About the Left

Leave it to Bernard-Henri Lévy, a Sartre in billowy, unbuttoned white shirt, to anticipate the gusts of the geopolitical zeitgeist as we slip into a frigid autumn, chilled by more reminders of 20th-century totalitarianism than seem fair in an age of global warming.

By his own description a "philosopher, journalist, activist, and filmmaker," France's No. 1 media intellectual (unlike Federer, BHL keeps the top spot year after year even as his pecs soften) often draws sneers from

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