What Happened in France | Interview: Bernard-Henri Lévy

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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 The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Dispatchers, this is Jamie. I'm recording this Sunday night. We have two
0:05.9	intros this week of sorts. I just wanted to record a brief intro to the intro in the wake of the tragedies that occurred the other day where a gunman nearly killed former President Trump, killed an innocent bystander at a Trump rally and as far as I understand two others are still critically injured at the hospital.
0:30.0	We have a great conversation this week for the weekly Dispatch Monday podcast.
0:35.0	I just want to let you know this was recorded before the tragic events of Pennsylvania in the shooting. We, I'm sure, we'll discuss this and what occurred and what will happen in this campaign in light of these events in future episodes,
0:51.6	but I thought I'd let you know that the
0:54.3	conversation that we have this week was before this occurred. So let's get to the
1:00.0	real intro and let's get going.
1:03.8	Welcome to the Dispat Podcast.
1:05.3	I'm Jamie Weinstein.
1:06.6	My guest today is Bernard Henry Lavie.
1:09.4	He is probably the most famous French political philosopher in America in the last two decades.
1:17.8	He also is a commentator on international affairs.
1:21.9	Wherever there is a war zone you can often find
1:25.3	Bernard Henry Lvivi there speaking about defending the good against the evil. He
1:32.0	is probably best known in America for books like
1:35.4	who killed Daniel Pearl, the genius of Judaism and American Vertigo traveling
1:41.8	America in the footsteps of
1:43.9	Dutokville. We get into a lot of issues on this podcast most importantly or at
1:50.3	least most relevantly the French political elections that have just
1:54.9	taken place but we also talk about issues he cares deeply about Ukraine the war in
2:01.1	Israel Gaza what he thinks of the American elections, and much more.
2:06.1	I think you're going to enjoy this podcast.
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