In the 2011 French comedy L’Amour dure trois ans (Love Lasts Three Years), Pascal Bruckner perches on a red sofa next to his friend and fellow nouveau philosophe Alain Finkielkraut. With a sad smile, ...

Pascal Bruckner soothes capitalist feathers ruffled by Thomas Piketty: “What does it matter that the rich are getting richer?” (Ryger) Four years ago, a leading French intellectual produced a ...

Enter Alain Badiou, only too eager to supply the remedy. Badiou is a philosopher by training who has become, for lack of a better term, "hot" among the cultural-studies crowd. Fellow star Slavoj Zizek ...

French philosopher Bruckner (The Tyranny of Guilt) argues that Islamophobia is being weaponized to muzzle legitimate critique of Islam in this dubious study. Building on his critique of “Western white ...

In a critique of the West’s postcolonial self-flagellating tendencies that is both fascinating and repellent, prize-winning French novelist and essayist Bruckner (Tears of the White Man) offers a ...

As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets to stare at the mammoth object growing before them. Soon, it will pass harmlessly by — but first, a strange old man, ...

No, Ken Burns, the United States Is Not an Iroquois Nation Klimts Make YUGE Bucks at Sotheby’s, and Are Maine’s Aggrieved Penobscots Happy to Let a Masterpiece Rot? The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on ...

On The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism, by Pascal Bruckner. Shortly after taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama declared America’s need to “restore” good relations with Muslims ...

French writer Pascal Bruckner on Wednesday evening launched in Bucharest his most recent novel, "A Year And A Day." Organised by the TREI publishing house, the event took place at the Humanitas ...

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