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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 12:49 PM

    America's unlikely defender.

    So, the French consider Bernard-Henri Levy to be an intellectual.

    Well, they also consider Jerry Lewis to be funny, so we shouldn't be surprised.

    —J. T. M. Anderson

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