[Stirner]

BHL is a French intellectual, but he is a pro-American European intellectual, which is pretty rare these days. Can't say that Keillor is a pro-American intellectual, so between the two I pick Bernard Henri Levy. He's of the left, but no proponent of revolution because he believes that Cambodia finally proved that leftist revolutions lead only to disaster. About all previous attempts (in France and Russia, for example) leftists could say that the Revolution failed because it was subverted or didn't go far enough, but the Cambodians went all the way. He's following in de Toqueville's steps not to damn us, but to explain to Europeans what is good about America

[aculeus]

BHL is a French intellectual, but he is a pro-American European intellectual, which is pretty rare these days.

Yes he is. He was one of the leaders of the French downgrade of Marxism, the one French intellectual movement that American universities manage to ignore.

[liberallarry]

BHL is a French intellectual, but he is a pro-American European intellectual, which is pretty rare these days.

The L.A. Times (I believe) ran a review of the same book in which they emphasized this and pointed out that while Levy didn't like Bush he did like many of the neocons.

He's following in de Toqueville's steps not to damn us, but to explain to Europeans what is good about America

That's right...but I'm still not crazy about the man or his observations. I haven't read the book but I did read most of his articles in the Atlantic. He's pompous and not particularly trenchant in his observations.