Paul Berman – The New Republic

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Paul Berman is a writer on politics and literature. His books, which have been translated into fourteen languages, include “A Tale of Two Utopias”, “Terror and Liberalism”, and “Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath”.

He writes for The New Republic (where he is a contributing editor) and Dissent (where he is a member of the editorial board), as well as for The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, and a variety of other journals in the United States and elsewhere. In the past, he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker, a book critic for The Village Voice and Slate, and theatre critic for The Nation.

Currently Paul is a writer in residence at New York University.

This program features the edited highlights of a talk given by Paul Berman in London on the evening of June 11th 2006 for the Euston Manifesto group, and a short interview.