Since the publication of his 1984 book, Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, Benjamin R. Barber has been a major figure in the realm of political theory, and he was part of an inner ...

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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, by Benjamin R. Barber (W.W. Norton, 406 pages, $26.95) Somewhere in Consumed, Benjamin Barber, a civil-society ...

It’s been a while since Benjamin R. Barber, the left-wing political scientist and ex-Howard Dean adviser, attracted the attention of The Scrapbook. Barber is one of those anticapitalist types who is ...

Benjamin Barber's 1500-word essay, "A new American revolution?" of January 31 needed your editorial scissors -- it's too long and too convoluted. (Dr. Barber, a political scientist, exhibits the ...

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On the C-SPAN Networks: Benjamin R. Barber is an Author with 12 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1987 Forum as a Professor for Political Science in the Rutgers University ...

Prof. Benjamin Barber, government at University of Maryland at College Park and novelist, spoke last Friday about "Globalizing Markets? Globalizing Terror? Or Globalizing Democracy?" to an audience in ...

In an impassioned love letter to cities and their political leaders, Barber (Jihad vs. McWorld) celebrates the diversity and ferment that embody urban life. Modern cities, he claims, fulfill the ...