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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.

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  • Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:39 PM

    Panned in the LA Times by Marianne Wiggins

    De Toqueville interviewed a great many average Americans for his book. Levy spends three whole pages on Sharon Stone.

    Wiggins' conclusion was -- forget Levy, vive de Toqueville.

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