If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fa….

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen..

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes..

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved mili….

The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it sh….

Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of….

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places..

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism..

The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing abou….

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal..

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains..

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism..

You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by ….

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of tha….

When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the pl….

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always b….

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil..

I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book"? I am the ….

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects..

In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I think and….

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive..