Eric Alterman is charmingly courteous in introducing his criticisms, and he announces an intention to pull his punches (which, by the time he’s through, makes me wonder what an unpulled punch might be), but then, having worked his way through the formalities, he delivers his verdict: “Paul’s review does an extreme disservice to the truth […]
Paul Berman
Paul Berman’s writings on political and cultural issues have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review and Slate. He is the author of Terror and Liberalism and Power and the Idealists: Or, The Passion of Joschka Fischer, and its Aftermath.
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Terror and Liberalism
The present war, if that is the correct word, may very well be, as President Bush has observed, a war of a new kind—the “first war of the twenty-first century.” But in one important respect, the present war also appears to be—and this, too, the president has hinted at indirectly—a war of an old kind, […]
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Essay: Labor and the Intellectuals
Despite reciprocal indifference, labor unions and liberal intellectuals can still enliven one another.