Benjamin R. Barber is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Dēmos, president of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. Barber is the author of seventeen books, including the classic Strong Democracy, the international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld and most recently, Consumed. Barber appears frequently in broadcast media and domestic and international news publications, and he consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the US (President Bill Clinton, Governor Howard Dean) and around the world (Germany, UK, Libya, Italy, Finland). He writes and speaks on a wide variety of questions connected to democracy and citizenship, including the arts, education, globalization, terrorism, and the new politics of the Middle East and North Africa.

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