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UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

The retreat of the West is a disaster - Bernard-Henri Lévy

Oct 8, 2021
43:02

Freddie Sayers speaks to Bernard-Henri Lévy.


Few have made the case for liberal interventionism more consistently than Bernard-Henri Lévy. Despite setbacks in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, the French public intellectual’s worldview has remained largely unchanged.


But with the Taliban now in control of Afghanistan — and signs of resistance dwindling — is he still convinced the West was right to be there at all?


He joined Freddie Sayers in our London studio to discuss his new book, The Will to See.


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