Bad Ideas Never Die

French public intellectuals have a reputation—well-deserved—for being socialists, Marxists, or Trotskyists. Some French thinkers, however, have carried forward another intellectual tradition, that of classical liberalism—pro-democracy and pro-market—and running from the work of Alexis de Tocqueville to Albert Camus to the philosopher and journalist Jean-François Revel, who died at 82 in 2006.