Daniel Singer

Europe Correspondent

Daniel Singer, for many years The Nation's Paris-based Europe correspondent, was born on September 26, 1926, in Warsaw, was educated in France, Switzerland and England and died on December 2, 2000, in Paris.

He was a contributor to The Economist, The New Statesman and the Tribune and appeared as a commentator on NPR, "Monitor Radio" and the BBC, as well as Canadian and Australian broadcasting. (These credits are for his English-language work; he was also fluent in French, Polish, Russian and Italian.)

He was the author of Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 (Hill & Wang, 1970), The Road to Gdansk (Monthly Review Press, 1981), Is Socialism Doomed?: The Meaning of Mitterrand (Oxford, 1988) and Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours? (Monthly Review Press, 1999).

A specialist on the Western European left as well as the former Communist nations, Singer ranged across the Continent in his dispatches to The Nation. Singer sharply critiqued Western-imposed economic "shock therapy" in the former Eastern Bloc and US support for Boris Yeltsin, sounded early warnings about the re-emergence of Fascist politics into the Italian mainstream, and, across the Mediterranean, reported on an Algeria sliding into civil war.

The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 to honor original essays that help further socialist ideas in the tradition of Daniel Singer.

 

A Deserter From Death A Deserter From Death

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

La Peste La Peste

François Mitterrand, everything suggests, will be re-elected as President next Sunday, but Jean-Marie Le Pen is the unquestioned winner of the first-round tally.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Supping With the French Devil Supping With the French Devil

The temptation to accept the National Front as a partner has split the right.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Does the Left Have a Future? Does the Left Have a Future?

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Le Pen’s Pals—Blood and Soil Le Pen’s Pals—Blood and Soil

There are two unmistakable signs that France is entering a pre-electoral period: The government is once again tinkering with the electoral law and the politicians are competing wit...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Sound and the Furet The Sound and the Furet

The public is still under the spell of the counterpoint in Francis Fukuyama's famous exercise in propaganda: Capitalism is eternal because there is no alternative.

Jan 1, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

In Europe, Hope Amid the Ruins In Europe, Hope Amid the Ruins

Resistance and reaction.

Apr 27, 1995 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Stench of Corruption The Stench of Corruption

Letter From Europe

Dec 15, 1994 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Continent Divided The Continent Divided

Letter From Europe

Jan 8, 1993 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2007.

The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen

Letter From Europe

Sep 7, 1985 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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