Paul Berman

Paul Berman is Tablet’s critic-at-large. He is the author of A Tale of Two Utopias, Terror and Liberalism, Power and the Idealists, and The Flight of the Intellectuals.

Paul Berman’s Crisis Notebook, II
A collection of pandemic and political jottings from Tablet’s ‘Modern Times’ column
byPaul Berman
Stanley Crouch (1945–2020)
The great jazz and cultural critic, soloing over changes, sang his enthusiasm for America
byPaul Berman
Kamala and the Toothpaste Tube
The view from the vice presidential debate
byPaul Berman
A Rotting Pumpkin Reveling in Madness
The view from the debate
byPaul Berman
Lynching and Liberalism
The ‘Harper’s’ ‘Letter on Justice and Open Debate’ extends a long American history of the defense of rational thought and free expression against the ideological coercions of the left
byPaul Berman
Biden and the ‘Russiagate’ Theorists
Why Joe Biden is the perfect candidate to withstand mad Trumpian conspiracies
byPaul Berman
Simple Videos and Complex Causes
The meaning of the shocking, horrifying, and revelatory recording of George Floyd’s death
byPaul Berman
The Post-Pandemic Mind
Who will command the emerging new order: conservative nationalists, digital theoreticians, or social-democratic and liberal internationalists?
byPaul Berman
Paul Berman’s Crisis Notebook
A collection of pandemic jottings from Tablet’s News-section column ‘Modern Times’
byPaul Berman
Moderates and Progressives in the Democratic Party
Why Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday win was powered by black America
byPaul Berman
The Shadow Election
2020, 1941, and the grand-scale rollback of a shared devotion to democratic freedom
byPaul Berman
Adonis in Jerusalem
A Syrian-born poet resembles Arab literary men of the ancient past
byPaul Berman
Bellow in Jerusalem
A reader’s notes from the Old City
byPaul Berman
The Blindspot in Bernie Sanders’ Anti-Semitism Manifesto
Bernie has been America’s greatest truth-teller on economic inequality, so why can’t he be truthful about anti-Semitism?
byPaul Berman
Porgy and Bess
How George Gershwin’s stipulation that his opera, currently at the Met, be performed by an all-black cast, plays in the America of then and now
byPaul Berman
Virgil and the Homeless Nations
A Jewish observation
byPaul Berman
Elizabeth Warren in Washington Square
At last night’s rally, reviving the spirit of Frances Perkins
byPaul Berman
Was B. Traven Jewish?
The mystery of the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre remains unresolved
byPaul Berman