Le Soir d’Hulencourt : The Conference Dinner «L’Empire et les Cinq Rois»

Dinner, discussion and debate: The earth shook in Kurdistan. Are we witnessing the sun setting on the American empire and the retreat of the West? We now see the five kings of fallen empires – Persian, Ottoman, Chinese, Russian, Arabic – seeking to reclaim their former glory. How Trump is in the process of burying, not the America of Obama, but the America of Virgil. What were the Iranians thinking when they renamed what was formerly Persia in 1935, giving it a Nazi name instead? Why the real trap is that of Herodotus, and not that of Thucydides. Forty years after Barbarism with a human face, writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy presents his take on contemporary barbarism.

130€