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Danny Postel is a journalist and activist living in Chicago.
He is Communications Coordinator for the organization Interfaith Worker Justice and the editor of its newsletter. He is co-coordinator of the Committee for Academic and Intellectual Freedom of the International Society for Iranian Studies and an active member of Chicago's No War on Iran Coalition and the Chicago Committee in Solidarity with the People of Iran.
He is the author of Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism, published in December 2006 by Prickly Paradigm Press. He is a Contributing Editor to Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; a member of the editorial board of The Common Review, the magazine of the Great Books Foundation, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture.
His work has appeared in Alexandria Biblioteka (Serbia), Alternative Press Review, AlterNet, The American Prospect, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik (Germany), Britannica.com, the Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Corriere della Serra (Italy), Critical Inquiry, Exquisite Corpse, Fellowship, The Guardian, In These Times, Left History, Lip, Logos, Lumpen, The Nation, New City, the New Humanist, New Politics, openDemocracy, Philosophy & Social Criticism, The Progressive, Race Traitor, Radical Society, La Raza, Reset (Italy), Salmagundi, the San Antonio Current, Shargh (Tehran), Stop Smiling, TomPaine.com, Truthdig , the Washington Post Book World, Die Welt (Germany), and Z Magazine, among other publications.
His work has also been published in three recent books: Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty, edited and with an Introduction by Eduardo Mendieta (2006); Liberalism for a New Century, edited by Neil Jumonville and Kevin Mattson (2007); and Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt, 1996–2007, edited by Brian Awehali (2007).
In 1991 he was on the editorial collective of Left Green Notes, the magazine of the Left Green Network. From 1996-1999 he hosted Free Associations, a weekly radio show in Chicago about politics, culture, and books. In 2000-2001 he was editor of philosophy and then history & humanities at Britannica.com, the late online magazine of Encyclopædia Britannica. From the fall of 2001 until the spring of 2003 he was a staff writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he covered philosophy, history, political theory, Middle Eastern studies, and African studies. And in 2004-2006 he was Contributing Editor and then Senior Editor of openDemocracy, an online global magazine of politics & culture based in London.
He has taught journalism at Columbia College in Chicago; English as a Second Language at St. Augustine College and at the Howard Area Community Center in Chicago; and taught Spanish in a Chicago elementary school. He has been interviewed on Australian, British and American radio and has lectured at universities in Norway, the UK, Canada and the U.S.
He can be reached at dannypostel at gmail dot com.