...and humanity found in their immediate environs, and mistakenly apply it to death cultists on the other side of the world. Paul Berman calls this “rationalist naiveté.” But seven years after 9/11, the persistence of this mischaracterization feels like something...
...New Republic recently published Paul Berman's excellent intellectual portrait of the Swiss-born Islamic thinker Tariq Ramadan, arguably the most influential Muslim writing and teaching in Europe today. In what must be the longest single essay ever published...
...soon as you reached the bar. I always looked for Stephanie's byline in the paper, and liked talking with and looking at her. Paul Berman recalls Leonard Bernstein's description of Stephanie: “a biblical Renaissance beauty." After leaving the Voice in the early...
...reading Across the Bay regularly, you're not interested in the Middle East." -- Charles Paul Freund "A scholarly blog" -- Paul Berman "Feisty, eloquent" -- IraqPundit "Excellent Levantine blog ... useful and often important clearinghouse of information...
...moderate Muslim philosopher and proponent of European Islam, for The New York Times Magazine. Neo-conservative journalist Paul Berman responded with a 28,000-word rebuttal in The New Republic. He charged Buruma with glossing over Ramadan's history of supporting...
...rightly assailed William Ayers as a greater immediate danger to the American education system than he ever was to the Pentagon. Paul Berman, echoing his hero Irving Howe, has reminded us that 60's left-wing authoritarianism is no alternative to the timeless...
...signed a petition recently in support of Ayers, prompting an angry response on the Web site The Daily Beast from Paul Berman, a onetime SDS member who has written extensively about the 1960s. Interestingly, though, several individuals contacted for comment...
...with these two endorsements, his successor. Thus, in late 2002 and early 2003, we found such luminaries as Christopher Hitchens, Paul Berman, Thomas Friedman, Fred Kaplan, Kenneth Pollack, Fareed Zakaria, Jeff Jarvis, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Ignatieff, and...
...Berman always commands attention and respect. He has published here many times. And his measured Daily Beast posting on Bill Ayers is definitive: just, textured, and in the end unrelenting. Ayers was a wannabe muderer and not just a criminal type. If you want...
... Mattson: Thanks for having me. Mattson: A paradox I noticed. Conservatives seemed rather brash and war-like in their demeanor. I remember reading a book by Fred Barnes about George W. Bush entitled Rebel in Chief. I thought it strange for conservatives to...