![]() ![]() ![]() If all three were to happen, the world that I want to leave my children and grandchildren could completely collapse. There are three things that absolutely cannot be allowed to happen: Israel cannot be allowed to turn into an autocracy like Viktor Orban’s Hungary Ukraine cannot be allowed to fall to Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump cannot be allowed to occupy the White House ever again. Which is why the focus of my columns these days has been very tight. A few weeks ago, one of France’s most famous public intellectuals, Bernard-Henri Lévy, gave an interview to The Times on his new documentary, “Slava Ukraini,” and he said something that helped me understand why, as I approach my 70th birthday, I still want to be a journalist.Īsked why, at age 74, he dodged rockets in Ukraine to bring home the savagery of the Russian invasion, Lévy said, “In Ukraine, I had the feeling for the first time that the world I knew, the world in which I grew up, the world that I want to leave to my children and grandchildren, might collapse.” ![]()
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