Raphaël Glucksmann sought to follow in the footsteps of his philosopher father, André, as an engaged intellectual. Now he’s the leader of the French Socialist list for the EU Parliament, whose bright political future may depend on abandoning everything his father stood for

Remembering the French intellectual, a man of influential ideas

Raphael Glucksmann should be with his family in Paris, but he’s too busy defending the nascent liberal democracy in Ukraine