> They are not popular with many people but are fixtures
> of a certain middle brow journalism scene which throws
> in articles every now and then from "controversial"
> public intellectuals. That would be the extent of it.
> Levy is far better known to the public from his
> flackery in ex-Yugoslavia & also because of his wife
> who is a hack actress.
BHL has been popular for four decades, like it or not. Of course, he represents a sort of a drift, but that very drift is "internal" to the European left. The arguments about the "just war"(starting with Bosnia), by the way, were/are also pretty much internal to the left.
> Alain Finkelkraut is probably
> better known than Glucksmann.
but Glucksmann's hair were even better than Levy's.