Dr. Benjamin Barber Dr. Benjamin Barber currently holds the Walt Whitman Chair of Political Science at Rutgers University and directs the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy. Dr. Barber has received global acclaim for his book, Jihad vs. McWorld, a critical study of the corrosive effects of tribalism and markets on democracy. He chaired the Department of American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, has contributed to a wide array of education television specials, and edited the international quarterly Political Theory for ten years. A widely published author, his works include Strong Democracy (1984), The Conquest of Politics (1988), and l'Excellence et l'Egalite (1992).
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