Norman Birnbaum

Norman Birnbaum, a Nation editorial board member, has been reader of the magazine since 1938 and a contributor since the 1950s. He is professor emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center. His most recent book is After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford).

Currently

  • Obama: Filling a Vacuum in Berlin

    July 26, 2008

    A nation whose citizens have been largely turned off to politics held Barack Obama in a fervent embrace, viewing America once again as a place of new possibilities.

2006

  • The Strange Silence of Günter Grass

    August 18, 2006

    By concealing for a near-lifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter Grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to deem a moral defect in others. And for that, we are all losers.

  • Is Israel Good for the Jews?

    August 5, 2006

    An American Jewish identity that centers on unconditional defense of Israel is not healthy--for either American Jews or Israel.

2005

  • Sturm und Drang

    September 22, 2005 Subscribe

    As political parties in Germany dance toward a coalition following the stalemated elections, the country is in for a turbulent month--and new elections are a serious option.

  • America's Imaginary Frontier

    September 13, 2005

    America's narcissism and willful blindness to its own moral failings have been placed in sharp relief as the nation fitfully responds to the needs of storm victims.

  • An Ambiguous Papacy

    April 7, 2005

    The Catholic Church under John Paul II

  • Europe by, and for, Itself

    February 17, 2005 Subscribe

    A look at the real Europe--and at the real issues it has with U.S. policy.

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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