Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Twists of the tongue
When competing languages collide, demography eventually supersedes prestige
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
