It will have come as no surprise to just about anyone that the response of Bérnard-Henri Lévy, France’s pre-eminent public intellectual, to the murderous attack on Salman Rushdie in upstate New York was to launch a campaign, headed by himself, for Rushdie to be awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.
Shaping news: terrorism spreads in the Sahel and China plays peace-broker in the Middle East
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