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

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book"? I am the kind of person who finds life interesting only if it is translated into writing, if it is parsed into words.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

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.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.