October 21, 2007
Terrorism Awareness Indeed
A guest post on Rick Perlstein's blog about the "special relationship" between certain neoconservatives and a most unusual Iranian organization.
September 27, 2007
Foucault, Ahmadinejad, and "certain other" Iranians
From the September 24 Guardian, "Remember our real Iranian friends". In my two cents on l'affaire Ahmadinejad, I revisit a 1977 meeting in Paris organized by Foucault, Sartre, and a group of French intellectuals that I suggest could cast some much-needed light amid the heat of cacaphony and confusion over the Iranian president's US visit--and the visit he's about to make to Venezuela. The article has been translated into Persian (Farsi) and appears on Radiozamaneh.com.
February 13, 2007
Reviews and interviews
Some reviews of Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran are coming in, and there have been a few interviews with me about it. Farzin Vahdat, author of the landmark God and Juggernaut: Iran’s Intellectual Encounter with Modernity (to which my book owes a huge debt) wrote this review for the online journal Logos. Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson review the book (along with four other new books on Iran) in the July 16 issue of The Nation. Andrei Codrescu wrote this very generous review for his syndicated column appearing in several alternative weeklies around the country. Robert Birnbaum penned this short but sweet review in the Morning News (scroll down a little). This review, published as an editorial in a newspaper in Guyana (the Stabroek News), is delightfully nice. Scott McLemee devoted his "Intellectual Affairs" column in InsideHigherEd.com to this interview with me, and followed it up with this very thoughtful post on the group blog Crooked Timber. I was also interviewed by Alan Saunders for his excellent Australian radio show The Philosopher's Zone, which you can download here , and by Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine, for its radio show, which you can download by going here. This review, by the Pakistani writer and human rights activist Rafia Zakaria, appears in the Indian magazine Frontline. (Zakaria has since discussed my book in this column and quotes me in this article.) I was recently interviewed by Goudarz Eghtedari on his radio show Voices of the Middle East, which you can find here. The distinguished critic George Scialabba wrote this review for the Spring issue of the magazine Bidoun: Arts and Culture from the Middle East.
September 25, 2006
A lapse in editorial judgment
My response to an article praising Ramin Jahanbegloo for his "confession" -- an appallingly shoddy apologia for repression that should never have been published on openDemocracy but inexplicably was.
June 24, 2004
Inside the Republican Crack-Up
The Agony of the American Right
Finally, Bush's war comes home—to his party. Inside the schism that's ripping the Republican coalition apart.
From the July 2004 issue of The American Prospect
April 21, 2004
Conservatives against the Iraq war
From the May issue of The American Prospect: an overview of the alliance of libertarians, realists, and paleoconservatives opposed to the Iraq war and to the neocon foreign policy agenda more broadly, the silent treatment they've received from the conservative press, and how they're going to vote in November.
December 05, 2003
Portrait of an Antihumanist: John Gray's Bogus Journey
From The Nation, my review of two books by the English political philosopher John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals and Al Qaeda And What It Means To Be Modern.
May 10, 2003
Postel Portfolio
Below are links to a selection of my published articles, interviews, and reviews.
The neocons' soft spot for an Islamist-Stalinist death cult
Foucault, Chávez, Ahmadinejad, and "certain other" Iranians
Death of a Humanist: Richard Rorty's Secularism
Richard Rorty, 1931-2007: The Final Interview
An ominous arrest in Iran and its geopolitical coordinates
Max Boot's Pretzel Logic: Nader Hashemi & I on Iran & the neocons
Ideas whose time has come: A Conversation with Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo
What is living & what is dead in leftism: Interview with Fred Halliday
Michel Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Assimilation and its Discontents: Debating Latino Identity
On the edge of an unknown abyss: Interview with Leszek Kolakowski
Camus, Sartre, and Us: The story of a friendship and the quarrel that ended it
Cracks in the neoconservative mirror: Why Francis Fukuyama didn't vote for Bush
On the verge of a purge: inside the Republican crack-up
Conservatives against the Iraq war
Leo Strauss, the neo-cons, and the Iraq war
Review of Paul Berman's Terror and Liberalism
The specter haunting African studies
Interview with Jürgen Habermas
Sidney Hook, an Intellectual Street Fighter, Reconsidered
James Blight's Critical Oral History of the Cold War
Unearthing the Painful History of Lynching in America
Were There Jews in the Nazi Military?
Race and Identity: Profile of Anthony Appiah
The Human Rights Revolution: Profile of Michael Ignatieff
Michael Bellesiles and the Arming America Controversy
Immigrants and Democracy: Profile of Bonnie Honig
The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia: Interview with Bogdan Denitch
From the Frankfurt School to journalism: Interview with Lowell Bergman
Hegel's philosophy in biographical context: Interview with Terry Pinkard
Death and the Maiden: Interview with Ariel Dorfman
Surrealism in Chicago: Interview with Penelope Rosemont
Growing up Okie: Interview with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?
Mother Teresa’s Crimes Against Humanity: Interview with Christopher Hitchens
How the Irish Became White: Interview with Noel Ignatiev
Left, right, forward, or backward? The metamorphosis of Telos