One of France's most popular philosophers, journalists and filmmakers. An iconoclastic thinker and bon vivant, Lévy is the author of dozens of books including the international bestsellers Barbarism with a Human Face, Who Killed Daniel Pearl, and his most recent, American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. Lévy is also co-founder of the antiracist group SOS Racism. He currently writes weekly a column for Le Point magazine.