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norman birnbaum, who has died at the age of 92, was a highly valued and regular contributor to Political Quarterly over many years. In 2011 he received the Crick Prize at the Orwell Awards for the best article in PQ in 2010. He travelled to London especially for the prize and delivered a memorable speech. The prize was awarded for his article ‘American progressivism and the Obama presidency’ (PQ 81:4) and was typical of his writing which always embodied the qualities PQ exists to promote—engaged, direct, authoritative, and written in plain English. Norman was a public intellectual of a rare kind.
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