Tag: Interview

How professionals remade the Democratic Party, narrowing its political vision.

An interview with Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof about his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

Sunaura Taylor on what the environmental and disability movements can learn from one another.

How should LGBT activism think about state power?

An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.

Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea. 

Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.

An interview with poet Fady Joudah about writing his latest collection, [...], amid war in Gaza.

Jefferson Cowie speaks with Aziz Rana about whether the language of freedom can be taken back from its "sordid history" in the U.S. context.

Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.

Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.

Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

N'Kosi Oates speaks with J.T. Roane about Philadelphia's spatial politics and resistance to racial containment.

Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley.

Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face. 

Where is the line between professional philosophy and self-help? And how did we end up with this stark divide?