Paul Berman

Paul Berman
BornPaul Lawrence Berman
1949 (age 74–75)}
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia University (MA)
GenreNon-fiction

Paul Lawrence Berman (born 1949) is an American writer on politics and literature.

His books include Terror and Liberalism (a New York Times best-seller in 2003), The Flight of the Intellectuals, A Tale of Two Utopias, Power and the Idealists, and an illustrated children's book, Make-Believe Empire. He edited, among other anthologies, Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems, for the American Poets Project of the Library of America.

Born to a Jewish family,[1] Berman attended Columbia University, receiving an M.A. in American history in 1973. Berman was a longtime contributor to The Village Voice, then The New Republic.[2][3] He is critic-at-large at Tablet, a member of the editorial board of Dissent, and an Advisory Editor at Fathom.[4][5][6] He has been awarded fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations and from the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library. He was a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.[7]

  1. ^ Jewish Journal: "What will New Republic exodus mean for American Jewish thought?" by Anthony Weiss December 9, 2014
  2. ^ "Paul Berman's Farewell Wave to 'The Village Voice'". Tablet Magazine. 2018-09-27. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  3. ^ "Inside the Collapse of The New Republic". The New Yorker.
  4. ^ "Paul Berman". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  5. ^ "Masthead". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  6. ^ "Fathom – About us". Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  7. ^ "NYU Journalism - Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute". journalism.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on January 20, 2012.