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Monday, January 23, 2006 12:00 AM

America's unlikely defender

French provocateur Bernard-Henri Levy denounces anti-Americanism and defends the idealism of the neocons.
By Oliver Broudy

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  • Monday, January 23, 2006 10:54 AM

    capital punishment

    Dear Sir.

    In Mr. Broudy's interview with Bernard-Henri Levy, Mr. Levy states that the United States executed 475 prisoners last year. The actual figure for the last year is 59, of the 944 prisoners executed since the moratorium was liftted 1976. Although I am with Mr. Levy in his view that capital punishment is ethically unsound and ineffectual, I am unsure of how Mr. Levy arrived at his figure.

    Gregory Owen

    —Gregory Owen

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