Jean-Francois Revel was France's most prominent intellectual, earning the right to a place along with the great French writers of the past.(Brief article)

Jean-Francois Revel was France's most prominent intellectual, earning the right to a place along with the great French writers of the past. Whether writing about philosophy, politics, international affairs, literature, or art, he was always a free spirit. And what skill and wit he showed, what a polemical punch he packed, when he came to deal with the many around him with closed minds. Communism was a lie, and his analysis of how and why so many people could believe the lie was the basis of several of his most telling books. He feared that there was some general disposition to surrender to what he called ...