McLemee, Scott. "The Playboy Philosopher." INSIDE HIGHER ED October 1, 2008.

In Paris, it’s just the done thing to bash BHL. . . . Recently I featured an awesome graphic that went along with a BHL piece on Sarah Palin in New York magazine — an image of Palin getting bopped on the head with a baguette — and I included a link to the NY mag article, because hey, I re-used their graphic, I owed them a link. The comments that followed amounted to taking the baguette and turning it on BHL!” (Well, at least it wasn’t a cream pie.) Usually the expressions of exasperation are “all in good fun,” says Elkin. But one item at her blog — linking to a BHL piece on Simone de Beauvoir — provoked an exceptionally pompous display of aggravation from a French journalist. “You and your fellow Americans,” he wrote, “should realize that BHL is not a philosopher but a clown and a buffoon. You want real French philosophy, read Derrida, Foucault, Badiou, Baudrillard, if you are a right winger, read Aron, but please forget about this pompous arrogant shmuck BHL and his unending and shameless self-promotion. As a Frenchman, I am ashamed of BHL. . . . Read the rest here: http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/10/01/mclemee.