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Bernard-Henri Lévy’s sexism with a human face

Posted on 17 May 2011 by

Let me introduce you to Bernard-Henri Lévy. You might like him. Rather than joining the fashionable Marxist currents in the Left during and after 1968, he led a group of left-wing philosophers fiercely critical of the authoritarianism inherent in Marxism. … Continue reading →

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They Strauss-Kahn’t believe it

Posted on 16 May 2011 by

Perhaps they shouldn’t surprise anyone, but the instant cries of “it’s a conspiracy” that meet rape allegations against powerful and famous people always make me angry. We’ve had Whoopi Goldberg’s infamous “it wasn’t rape-rape” defence of Roman Polanski, and the … Continue reading →

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