19 Facts About Paul Berman

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

Paul Berman's books include Terror and Liberalism, The Flight of the Intellectuals, A Tale of Two Utopias, Power and the Idealists, and an illustrated children's book, Make-Believe Empire.

Paul Berman edited, among other anthologies, Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems, for the American Poets Project of the Library of America.

Paul Berman is critic-at-large at Tablet, a member of the editorial board of Dissent, and an Advisory Editor at Fathom.

Paul Berman was a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

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Paul Berman tries to trace the influence of these European movements upon the modern Muslim world.

Paul Berman identifies two principal totalitarian tendencies in the Muslim countries, Baathism and radical Islamism – mutually hostile movements whose doctrines, in his interpretation, overlap and have allowed for alliances.

Paul Berman proposed this argument and offered an explanation based on the concept of "rationalist naivete" in Terror and Liberalism.

Paul Berman developed the argument further in The Flight of the Intellectuals.

Paul Berman's ideas have influenced writers such as Martin Amis and Bernard-Henri Levy, helping to shape debates about the concept of the "post-left" in Britain.

Paul Berman argued that the NATO war in the former Yugoslavia in 1999 was justified by the doctrine of "liberal interventionism": an intervention intended to rescue endangered populations from extreme oppression and to promote liberal and democratic freedom.

Paul Berman looked on the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq in the same light.

Paul Berman's argument corresponded to the views of the political tendency that is sometimes described as the anti-totalitarian left.

Paul Berman was one of the American signatories of the Euston Manifesto in 2006, a British document which expressed that tendency.

Paul Berman is sometimes associated with the "New Philosophers" movement in France.

Paul Berman argues that packaged together with the liberal ideals in this movement were decidedly disturbing elements.

At the close of the book, Paul Berman considers the effect of the war in Iraq on these graduates of '68.

Paul Berman suggests that the war split the movement greatly, with many now deeply aware of the dramatic excesses of the regime of Saddam Hussein, as well as the potential negative consequences if such a dictator remained in power.

Paul Berman was fired a few months later, partly for refusing to print an article by Berman that was critical of the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua.