DANIEL SINGER

Daniel Singer (1926–2000) was a Polish Jew, a French intellectual, and an international journalist. In English, he wrote for The Economist, The New Statesman, and the International Herald Tribune and was The Nation’s Europe correspondent for twenty years. He also wrote in French, Russian, Polish, and Italian. In whatever language, Singer was a passionate and thoughtful socialist.

Singer’s was not only the socialism of bare necessities like bread, land and peace but also the socialism of luxuries like democracy and egalitarianism. His socialist egalitarianism, not to be confused with “leveling” or “uniformity,” would expand human existence; socialist democracy would expand from choice at the ballot box to democracy on the campus, democracy in the neighborhood, democracy in the office and on the shop floor.

The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 and has awarded fourteen prizes. We are relaunching with the 2024 prize after a pandemic-related hiatus.

The board members of the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation are: Garrett Brown (Secretary-Treasurer), Robert Capistrano (Board President), Barbara Garson, Nancy Holmstrom, Cedric Johnson, Wendy Kates, Sarah Leonard, Michael Lowy, Sarah Mason, Dawn Marie Paley, Eleni Varikas, and Suzi Weissman.