Isn’t peace—true peace—the surest route to the most enduring security for the Middle East?

Bernard-Henri Lévy, author of The Virus in the Age of Madness, joins Francis Fukuyama for a wide-ranging conversation on the global response to the pandemic, the challenges facing Western democracies, and what comes next.

The killing of the Islamic State’s leader does nothing to balance out the strategic and moral blunder of the U.S. abandonment of its most dependable ally in the region.

In memoriam.

A recent gaffe illustrates the dark core of Donald Trump.

BHL discusses the changing global order and the state of the West in the age of Trump.

The John Templeton Foundation recently asked more than a dozen leading scholars and public figures to write short essays responding to the question, “Does the free market corrode moral character?” Templeton also sponsored an event in London on this subject in early December, from which the conversation below is adapted.

What to do about the new anti-Semitism.

What are the sources of the American image around the world? How has it changed in recent years? And what, if anything, can the U.S. government do to shape that image? The American Interest posed these questions to a distinguished group of international observers. Their answers reflect diverse histories and circumstances, and offer some useful […]

Bernard-Henri Levy, a French intellectual following in Tocqueville’s footsteps, discusses America with Francis Fukuyama.