Norman Birnbaum

Biographic Data

ID3629782
NAMENorman Birnbaum
GIVEN NAMESNorman
FAMILY NAMEBirnbaum
SIGNATUREBIRNBAUM N
AFFILIATIONSGeorgetown University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS80
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1953
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX4

  • Trump is Here to Stay

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2018

    The rest of the world worries about Trump's bellicosity, ignorance, and patronising arrogance. In the US he presents a clear and present danger to civility and democracy. His xenophobia and racism, his deep resentment of our educated elites and his ignorance of and contempt for much of our history mark his politics. He has found a supportive public, perhaps about 40 per cent of the electorate, in what the experts politely termed ‘low information …

  • Taking It Big—C. Wright Mills’ Struggle With Our (Shared) Smallness

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2013

  • American Progressivism and the Obama Presidency

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2010

    US progressivism is half espoused, half rejected, by an ambivalent if talented President. The Republican image of the President as ‘socialist’ is one which the social democratic Democrats wish were true. The President's readiness to compromise has not tempered the extreme hostility of the Republicans. It has been exploited by the political agents of business and finance. It has used by the permanent war party: the campaign against ‘terror’ enable…

  • Is Social Democracy Dead

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLENew Labor Forum2010Cited by: 3

    demonstrations in Seattle and Genoa, and at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. There were even (very occasional) discreet invitations extended to (selected) adversaries of the new leviathan to cross the police lines guarding the participants at the Davos Economic Forums services of worship to explain their market critical impieties. Pope John Paul Us reminders of the Christian character of institutions of

  • The Presidential Election of 2008

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2008Cited by: 2

    Senators Barack Obama and John McCain each has severe problems. McCain must take his distance from the very unpopular President Bush while keeping the support of the core Republican voters, but suffers from lack of rapport with the Fundamentalist Protestants and traditionalist Catholics. In foreign policy, he is more devoted to US global hegemony (in a world which stubbornly refuses it) than the incumbent. Senator Obama knows that this is a dange…

  • The 2006 Election and the American Future

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2006

    President Bush decidedly lost the 2006 US congressional, senatorial and state gubernatorial and legislative elections, but did the Democrats win? They are somewhat revived and hopeful about the presidential contest of 2008. Their profound inner divisions, however, deprive them of capacity for sustained initiatives. Meanwhile, the imperial presidency thrives‐President Bush is defying both elite and public opinion. By escalating war in Iraq and pre…

  • Theme III

    Open AccessB S Chimni, Norman Birnbaum et al.ARTICLELeiden Journal of International Law2003

    The network of international economic, political, and social organizations established at the initiative of the first world constitute a nascent global state whose function is to realize the interests of the powerful states to the disadvantage of third world states and peoples. The evolving global state formation may therefore be described as having a neo-imperial character

  • Summary

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLELeiden Journal of International Law2003

    It would have been a good deal easier to write the summary of the events, given the extreme complexity, contradictoriness, diversity, and above all the richness of contributions, had I not listened to them

  • Moral Purity and Persecution in History

    Norman Birnbaum, Barrington MooreARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003Cited by: 1

  • After Progress

    Norman BirnbaumBOOKAfter Progress2002

    The 20th century witnessed a profound shift in both socialism and social reform. In the early 1900s, social reform seemed to offer a veritable religion of redemption, but by the century's end, while socialism remained a vibrant force in European society, a culture of extreme individualism and consumption all but squeezed the welfare state out of existence. Documenting this historic change, this book looks at the course of social reform and Wester…

  • After the Debacle

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2001Cited by: 1

  • Exception to the Exception

    Jean-François Boittin, Norman BirnbaumARTICLEForeign Affairs2000

  • Is the Third Way Authentic

    Norman BirnbaumARTICLENew Political Economy1999

  • The Older Right

    Norman BirnbaumARTICLEForeign Affairs1997

  • The Lincoln Persuasion

    Norman Birnbaum, J David GreenstoneARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • What Can We Learn From the Movements of 1968

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLEConstellations1994

  • Searching for the light

    Norman BirnbaumBOOKSearching for the light1993

    "An influential social critic and a major social thinker, Norman Birnbaum has collected here, for the first time, a number of important essays. Written over the last twenty years, they range from the fate of sociology to the problematic end of Marxism." "Two questions inspire these essays. If thinkers are prisoners of their political contexts, how can thought apprehend historical movement? Can moral imagination alter social constraints? Birnbaum …

  • Endless March, Not Long March

    Norman Birnbaum, Richard FlacksARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1990

  • Renewal Unfulfilled

    James B Rule, Norman BirnbaumARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1989

  • Public Intellectuals without a Public

    Open AccessCasey Blake, Robert Nisbet et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1989

  • Beyond the Crisis

    P Kivisto, Norman BirnbaumARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1980Cited by: 1

  • Beyond the Crisis

    Steven Seidman, Norman Birnbaum et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1978

  • Beyond the Crisis

    Bruce Johnson, Bruce C Johnson et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1978

  • Solzhenitsyn as pseudo-moralist

    Open AccessNorman BirnbaumARTICLESociety1975

  • Toward a Critical Sociology

    Murray Hausknecht, Norman BirnbaumARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1973Cited by: 18