city of revolution bernard-henri lévy interview by OLIVIER ZAHM OLIVIER ZAHM — You were 20 years old in May 1968, during the chaos of the protests. Does the current situation in Paris, with the Yellow Vest demonstrations that are setting the city ablaze as we speak, remind you of that time? BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY — Absolutely not. No parallel. In the protests of May 1968, one found joy, hope, and generosity, absolutely none of which can be detected in the so-called Yellow Vest movement. The students, workers, and strikers of a half-century ago may have been naive. Or utopian. Or blindly pro-Cuban and Maoist. But in them — in us — lay real love for the human race. You don’t have that today. Or much less of it, at any rate. You have an identity-based shutdown, an anti-immigrant tension, a “go home” attitude that is absolutely appalling but undeniably present. And then,…