Guy Sorman (born March 10, 1944, Nérac) is a French-American professor, columnist, author, and public intellectual in economics and philosophy.
[1] Sorman has held many government positions in France, including advisor to the Prime Minister of France (1995-1997), Member of the National Commission for Human Rights, deputy mayor of Boulogne-Billancourt (since 1995), near Paris, and recently as Chairman of "Greater Paris West" Economic and Social Council.
He is a regular columnist for Le Figaro in France, the Wall Street Journal and conservative Manhattan Institute-associated City Journal (as a contributing editor) in the United States, ABC in the Kingdom of Spain, Dong-a Ilbo in South Korea, Fakt in Poland, La Nación in Argentina, and other foreign publications.
[citation needed] He attended the New York Carnegie Council on April 9, 2008, where he talked about China and how it is socially developing as a nation, presenting his new book The Empire of Lies (Newly translated into English).
[citation needed] Sorman's book on economy as a science, Economics doesn't lie, A Defense of the Free Market in a time of Crisis, was published July 2009, by Encounter New York.
[citation needed] In 2021, Sorman made headlines after arguing in an interview with the London Times that the French philosopher Michel Foucault had been involved in the sexual abuse of children in Tunisia in the 1970s.