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What Happened in France | Interview: Bernard-Henri Lévy


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NOTE: This episode was recorded last week July 10, before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy joins Jamie on today’s episode to discuss the surprise rise of the far-left in the French elections and its implications for Western foreign policy. Plus: why BHL’s glad he’s not American.

Agenda:

—French antisemitism

—How extremism is devouring the center

—Why Jews must stay in France

—The “made-up” question of migrants

—Broken economic schemes

—Why America actually won in Afghanistan

—“Ukraine and Israel are two front lines of the same war”

Show Notes:

Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld’s remarks on voting

Jeffrey Goldberg’s “Is it time for Jews to leave Europe?”

BHL’s “In The Footsteps of Tocqueville”

BHL’s “The Afghan Who Won’t Surrender to the Taliban”

Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls

Douglas Murray

Adam Gopnik

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