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	The Politics of Education: An Interview with Benjamin Barber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barber: The great danger in any democratic republic is the danger that people think democracy is an automaton — that is to say, an engine that goes of itself without any effort and that like the battery in the advertisement, it just keeps going and going and going.
		Barber: Yes but, Scott, the problem is that history is a story we agree upon, and the agreement you reach is never easily reached, particularly in multicultural, complex, diversified, heterogeneous America.
		Barber: I think, Scott, the question is whether the diversity is a result of people insisting on their different origins and roots, or whether the diversity and the differences are already there but in demeaning forms.
	www.scottlondon.com /interviews/barber.html (7109 words)

	Rutgers Writing Program - 101 - Link-O-Mat - Benjamin Barber
		Barber is currently Kekst Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and one of the principal organizers of The Democracy Collaborative, an international consortium of the world's leading academic centers and citizen engagement organizations concerned with studying and promoting civil society.
		An interview with Benjamin Barber conducted by Mark Schmitt is Director for Program of Governance and Public Policy at the Open Society Institute on Nov. 1, 2001.
		The Walt Whitman Center: founded in 1989 by Benjamin Barber, The Whitman Center works to encourage "Walt Whitman's ideal of a vigorous citizenry engaged in the culture and politics of a free society." Site includes a link to The State of Electronically Enhanced Democracy, a report Benjamin Barber, Kevin Mattson, and John Peterson.
	wp.rutgers.edu /courses/101/link_o_mat/barber.html (540 words)

	Benjamin Barber speaks for International Speakers Bureau
		Benjamin R. Barber has combined a career as a distinguished scholar and political theorist with a life of practical commitment to democratic civic practices and the arts that has given him widespread experience as an educational and political consultant, television and theater writer, fundraiser, administrator and public speaker.
		In academic administration, Barber is a principal and director of the New York office of the Democracy Collaborative, an international consortium of leading academic centers, civil society organizations, distinguished scholars, and seasoned practitioners committed to developing innovative approaches to strengthening the understanding and practice of democracy worldwide.
		Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship to issues of politics, culture, and education in the U.S.A. and abroad.
	www.internationalspeakers.com /speakers/ISBB-62GQ97/Benjamin_Barber (473 words)

	Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs
		Barber characterizes it as a retreat into tribalism, but one whose culture is more austere, disciplined, dogmatic, fierce and unforgiving, at times cruel in its fundamentalist ways.
		Barber's point is this --- and it is the key to his historical interpretation --- McWorld and Jihad are dialectically intertwined.
		Barber harks back to the principle of voluntarism in liberal theory --- to the civic-mindedness that inspires participation in public projects on a local or regional level through churches, schools, voluntary associations, and independent journalism.
	www.uvm.edu /~hst19/Online_Reading/Lecture_19.htm (2644 words)

	A CONVERSATION WITH BENJAMIN BARBER -- LOGOS 3.4 FALL 2004
		Benjamin Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at University of Maryland, College Park and the Principal and Director of the Democracy Collaborative.
		Barber: I think that’s the sign in our culture of marginalization; not oppression, but invisibility, and the fact that the arts don’t exist, as you say, even as a topic, let alone as a subject of real controversy or debate of what their role should be suggests how completely marginalized they have become.
		Barber: Globalization is about anarchy; globalization is about the erosion of sovereign states, the erosion of sovereignty, the erosion of national frontiers and the emergence of an anarchic, international world without governance, without civic structure, without regulation—and there are two powerful manifestations of such anarchy of the world.
	www.logosjournal.com /barber_election.htm (4561 words)

	sandiego.indymedia.org \| Benjamin Barber Addresses “Jihad vs. McWorld” at UCSD March 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Political scientist Benjamin Barber spoke at UCSD March 11 to address the issues raised in his best-selling book “Jihad vs. McWorld.” He argued that the relentless expansion of unregulated capitalism worldwide not only threatens democracy but creates the fertile soil in which terrorism grows.
		Barber has written 14 books, but the one that’s become most famous in the wake of September 11 was originally published in 1995 and bears the uncannily prophetic title Jihad vs. McWorld.
		Barber called this countermovement “Jihad,” though he meant it not as a specific reference to Muslims but to any group — including American Fundamentalist Christians — whose members feel their traditional values are under attack by capitalist globalization and its secular, consumption-oriented media culture.
	sandiego.indymedia.org /es/2002/03/787.shtml (1578 words)

	saramago.html
		Humanity, Barber fears, may be "reduced to a choice between the market's universal clutch and a retribalising politics of particularist identities", in a world where "everyone is a consumer; everyone belongs to some tribe.
		Benjamin quotes a passage from an Illustrated Guide to Paris of 1852 which sums up the essence of the arcades: "These arcades, a recent invention of industrial luxury, are glass-roofed, marble-panelled corridors extending through whole blocks of buildings, whose owners have joined together for such enterprises.
		Barber writes: "To ensure that malls are fun, many developers are installing high-tech virtual reality arcade games [30]", while Frank speaks of a mall in Illinois with a mock-Amazon "Rainforest Café" and a projected centre outside Madrid which will offer punters an artificial inside ski-slope [31].
	www.wbenjamin.org /saramago.html (2613 words)

	The New Humanities Reader - More Sample Assignments - Benjamin Barber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Both Peter Drucker and Benjamin Barber are concerned with the changes that society has undergone in the twentieth century and with what future societies will look like.
		As we have seen, both Peter Drucker and Benjamin Barber are concerned with the appropriate role of education in the contemporary world.
		Barber, for his part, argues that while formal classroom learning is important, curricula should also include community service programs in order to teach social responsibility and citizenship.
	www.newhum.com /for_teachers/more_sample_assignments/sa_barberex.html (489 words)

	The Truth of Power (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Benjamin Barber was first invited to Camp David in 1994, along with other prominent members of the academic community, to participate in a "seminar" with President Clinton on the future of Democratic ideas and ideals.
		With great perceptiveness, wit, and élan, Barber provides a startling meditation on truth and power—and the truth of power, which is the responsibility of the elected not to an idea but to the electorate.
		Benjamin R. Barber is director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy and Whitman Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring01/002014.htm (320 words)

	Book Review: 'A Place for Us' by Benjamin Barber
		Libertarians tend to define civil society as a synonym for the private market sector, pitting the people and their government at odds and making power the nemesis of liberty and the state the enemy of the individuals it is supposed to serve.
		Barber stresses that both government and private enterprise must be enlisted in the effort to revitalize civil society.
		As Barber sees it, corporations must either "give us back our government and, while pursuing profits, accommodate governmental encroachments and regulation in the name of the public weal, or they themselves will have to become more civic-minded and democratic, no matter what the cost to their profits.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/barber.html (572 words)

	Benjamin Barber
		Since September 11, Benjamin Barber's Jihad vs. McWorld, published in 1995, has become a bestseller and he has been called upon as a commentator on terrorism by media outlets worldwide.
		Barber, one of the most distinguished political theorists of our time, is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and University of Maryland System-wide Wilson H. Elkins Professor.
		Barber served as director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University for 12 years, where he also held the Walt Whitman Chair of Political Science.
	www.vergie.com /benjaminb.html (526 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		VERJEE: But how realistic, do you think, Benjamin Barber, changing some United States policy actually is? I mean, it's all well and good to talk about it, and being open about it, but for example, United States policy in the Middle East, United States support for Israel, for instance, in the region.
		BARBER: Well, I think we have to recognize in the United States that there is a new necessity, a new political realism, taught to us by the brutal tutors of 9/11, of September 11th.
		VERJEE: Benjamin Barber, I came across an interesting comment by Henry Hyde, who I believe is a representative in the House and a Republican from Illinois.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0208/01/i_qaa.01.html (3036 words)

	NOW with David Brancaccio. Politics & Economy. America and the World. Benjamin Barber \| PBS
		Benjamin R. Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and a principal of the Democracy Collaborative, with offices in New York, and Maryland.
		Barber consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the United States and Europe, including Governor Howard Dean, Governor Jim McGreevey of New Jersey, former President Bill Clinton, former Senator Bill Bradley, and former President Roman Herzog of Germany.
		Benjamin Barber's 17 books include the classic STRONG DEMOCRACY (1984) reissued in 2004 in a twentieth anniversary edition; the recent international best-seller JIHAD VS. MCWORLD (1995 with a Post 9/11 Edition in 2001, translated into twenty languages) and FEAR'S EMPIRE: WAR, TERRORISM AND DEMOCRACY (2003), also published in eight foreign editions.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/barber.html (339 words)

	Amazon.com: Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World: Books: Benjamin Barber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barber is really good on the big point that both of these trends are antithetical to the civil society that ought to be the goal of nations.
		Barber asserts--really insists with an uncomfortable brand of academic arrogance--in almost narrowly political overtones that the world is immersed in a battle of opposing ideologies: the corporate, amoral and homogenized one that really is without ideology and the local, or tribal, and rigidly moral and fragmented one that is part ideology, part myth-making.
		Barber contends that natural human political behavior results in smaller and smaller ethnic enclaves trying to separate themselves from the larger world, while unchecked global capitalism is erasing ethnic flavor with bowdlerized mass-culture sameness.
	www.amazon.com /Jihad-vs-McWorld-Globalism-Tribalism/dp/0345383044 (3276 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Benjamin R. Barber - Jihad Vs. McWorld at Epinions.com
		Neither is Barber's discussion of Jihad, his sound bite for the ethnic fragmentation of identity, particularly illuminating.
		Barber seems on the verge of something when he blames McWorld's frantic materialism for the renewal of ethnic tribalism -- Jihad offers our impoverished souls the elusive sense of community so undermined by our current frenzied capitalist excess.
		Even if Barber's book is not the best answer to our civic crisis, at least he did his part in addressing the fallacy of a sadly too-popular assumption these days.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-2096-16999C85-3844DC4F-prod1 (709 words)

	Politics & Internet 98 - people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BENJAMIN R. BENJAMIN BARBER has combined a career as a distinguished scholar and political theorist with a life of practical commitment to democratic civic practices and the arts.
		AMONG BARBER'S FOURTEEN BOOKS are the classic Strong Democracy (translated into six languages) and the two Princeton University Press editions of his essays The Conquest of Politics (philosophical essays) and the forthcoming A Passion for Democracy (American essays), as well as his recent critical hit Jihad Versus McWorld (with over a half dozen translations).
		In his capacity as director, Barber oversees an administrative staff of eight and another fifteen research and project personnel including a half dozen graduate students.
	www.kolumbus.fi /pi99/barber.html (570 words)

	Welcome to the official website of Benjamin R. Barber, political theorist and author of Jihad vs. McWorld
		Benjamin Barber will speak at the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado on January 26, 2007.
		Benjamin Barber will speak at the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy (ICDD) Lecture Series in Civic Discourse at Kansas State University.
		Benjamin Barber will deliver the keynote speech at Texas Christian University's Honors Convocation on April 17, 2007.
	www.benjaminrbarber.com (622 words)

	The Mac Weekly:Benjamin Barber speaks on democracy, terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Benjamin Barber, noted political theorist and author, spoke in the Alexander G. Hill Ballroom last Monday.
		Barber wrote the 1995 bestseller Jihad vs. McWorld, which explored the tension between the globalization of politics and the increasing tribalization of national cultures.
		Barber further discussed the president’s strategy in the war on terror, criticizing Bush’s view of terrorism as “a cancer infecting the body politic” of bad countries and his solution of “killing the body.” Barber pointed out that terrorists “are mobile parasites—occupying the body of rogue states.”
	www.macalester.edu /weekly/101003/news06.html (665 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Benjamin Barber Discusses "Jihad vs. McWorld" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barber accepted the invitation happy to return to New Dramatists to which he belonged in the 70s when he was writing and directing for the theater with Kevin OConnor, John Duffy, Lyn Austin, Ellen Stewart and others.
		Benjamin R. Barber is the Gresham and Carol Kist Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and a principal of the Democracy Collaborative, with offices in New York, Washington and the University of Maryland.
		Barber's honors include Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Social Science Research Fellowships, an honorary doctorate from Grinnell College, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy of Berlin (2001) and the chair of American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
	slash.autonomedia.org /article.pl?sid=01/11/27/2034241 (925 words)

	Benjamin Barber
		Benjamin Barber is a noted political scientist and writer.
		Barber's best work is An Aristocracy of Everyone, in which he makes a solid argument for public schooling.
		Bloom, argues Barber, is unhappy because colleges cater no longer to the privileged few but to the many, or, in other words, that universities are no longer aristocratic but democratic institutions.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /barber.html (278 words)

	Benjamin Barber to Speak at Mission College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barber consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the United States and Europe, and is the author of more than 15 books, including STRONG DEMOCRACY, MARRIAGE VOICES (a novel), and the recently published JIHAD vs. MC WORLD about the corrosive effects of tribalism and global markets on democracy.
		Barber's primary focus at the September 14th presentation will be on this most recent publication.
		Barber writes frequently for Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, and was the founding editor and for 10 years the editor-in-chief for the distinguished international quarterly POLITICAL THEORY.
	www.missioncollege.org /news/press/barber.html (227 words)

	05.04.2005 - Political theorist Benjamin Barber to speak at commencement
		BERKELEY – Political theorist Benjamin Barber, actor Warren Beatty, columnist Maureen Dowd, Nobel Prize winning physicist David Gross, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are among the speakers at this year's graduation ceremonies at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Barber is the Gershon and Carrol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and a founder of The Democracy Collaborative, a non-profit think tank affiliated with that university.
		Barber, who has lectured frequently at UC Berkeley over the years, said he plans to address the role of young people in a world of increasing interdependence and the role of the youth market in the infantilization of global consumers.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/05/04_convo.shtml (702 words)

	Multimedia files of Benjamin R. Barber, interviews, videos, audio
		And Commentator Benjamin Barber suggests before the bullets fly in another conflict, it would be wise to know all of the potential costs: economic and otherwise.
		Barber says it's not a tax cut for the American people -- it's a shifting of the responsibility to levy taxes from the Feds to the states and municipalities.
		A year after commentator Benjamin Barber first appeared on Marketplace, the author of Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World joins us again near the one-year anniversary of 9/11 to reflect on leadership in a changed world.
	www.benjaminrbarber.com /media.html (493 words)

	isen.blog
		But until Barber's dangers lock in, that is, as long as there's hope, I choose to be an optimist.
		Were it not for the internet, I would never have heard of Benjamin Barber, and would not have heard his opinion.
		So people like Benjamin Barber may try to remake the inernet after their own model, but to the extent that they succeed, they will wreck it.
	isen.com /blog/2005/03/benjamin-barber-shakes-things-up.html (637 words)

	More About Benjamin Barber
		Barber is the author of the international best seller Jihad Versus McWorld is a Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland.
		Benjamin R. Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and a principal of the Democracy Collaborative, with offices in New York, Washington and the University of Maryland.
		A distinguished, internationally renowned political theorist, Dr. Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship to issues of politics, culture and education in America and abroad.
	www.unl.edu /unlpub/special/thompsonforum/barberlinks.html (140 words)

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