Readers of this blog know that Albert Camus is one of my moral and intellectual heroes. That’s why I’m recommending a powerful and illuminating essay by Michael Azar, written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Camus’s death. Azar views Camus and his work through the lens of France’s eight-year war against Algerian nationalists—a war that placed Camus in a difficult but principled position: Perhaps the most difficult challenge for Camus came from those who saw the anti-colonial struggle as some kind of continuation of la Résistance, the French Resistance movement during the German occupation.Read More