http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-16/bernard-henri-lvy-the-dominique-strauss-kahn-i-know/

One is forcefully reminded of two things when reading any essay by BHL: he is living his notion of being the ethical heir to the mantle of ‘The Committed Public Intellectual’ made famous by Jean Paul Sartre, and his notoriously bad political judgments. And in a more American context, one is also reminded of Norman Mailer’s bad impersonation of Ernest Hemingway, for his almost interminable career in American Letters. But BHL manages to outdo the bad judgment of these two argumentative antecedents by having a gift for ‘friendships’ with a number of dubious men with a penchant for the exploitation of women, in subservient positions: pending, of course, the judgment of a court of law in the Strauss-Kahn case.  BHL is just another ‘media intellectual’ celebrated for his first book Barbarism with a Human Face, and its successors and a healthy dose of money from the family business, to buoy his climb to the top of the world of ‘Intellectual Media Stars’. BHL is best at articulating indignation in all its permutations, and reinforcing those observations with seemingly trenchant philosophical garnish, cribbed from the rich tradition of postwar French theory and thought:  one is reminded of the philosophical/literary rambles of Jacques Derrida, echoed in the essays of BHL.