The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.