Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

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

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!

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

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.