By Wikipedia “IF YOU’RE NOT A LIBERAL AT 20 YOU HAVE no heart, if you are not a conservative at 40 you have no brain,” Winston Churchill noted famously. He was…
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Alain Finkielkraut, (b. June 30, 1949) is a French essayist, and son of a Jewish-Polish manufacturer of fine leather goods who was deported to Auschwitz. He currently teaches at the École polytechnique as professor of the "history of ideas and modernity" in the department of humanities and social sciences. Author of a number of books, Finkielkraut is among some of France's public intellectuals who often appear on talk shows and publish columns in the French media. Finkielkraut advocates what in France is known as a humanist standpoint; although his supposed humanism has been challenged at many times during his career and frequently deemed quite the opposite of humanism, especially by anti-conservative and liberal activists. Sixty researchers and professors at the École polytechnique are known to have signed a petition to protest his alleged colonial views, although others have come to his defense and accused his protestors of attacking Finkielkraut because he's Jewish.
