http://www.postelservice.com/ The website of journalist and critic Danny Postel en-us 2008-01-29T01:25:00-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000054.html It occured to me recently that there's no one-stop shop containing my various articles on Iran. So here goes...... From the archives danny 2008-01-29T01:25:00-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000053.html A long (and long time coming) interview I did with the wide-ranging, not-easily-categorizable Bulgarian-French writer Tzvetan Todorov appears in the Winter 2008 issue of the journal Critical Inquiry. The full... Dialogue danny 2008-01-29T00:47:37-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000052.html On Thursday, November 1st I appeared on the television program Front & Center with John Callaway to discuss "Iran: the Next Military Frontier?" The program took the form of a... Dialogue danny 2007-11-03T20:20:11-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000051.html A guest post on Rick Perlstein's blog about the "special relationship" between certain neoconservatives and a most unusual Iranian organization.... Danny Speaks danny 2007-10-21T23:17:25-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000050.html 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... Danny Speaks danny 2007-09-27T08:09:09-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000049.html On Thursday August 16th the Book Cellar in Chicago hosted an event for four Prickly Paradigm Press authors -- Rick Perlstein, Tom Geoghegan, Matti Bunzl, et moi. It was an... General Delivery danny 2007-08-19T10:49:23-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000048.html From the July-August issue of the New Humanist magazine, some reflections on the late Richard Rorty's take on atheism, secularism, and humanism.... Essay danny 2007-07-06T20:37:36-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000047.html The eminent philosopher Richard Rorty died Friday, June 8th, at the age of 75. I am honored to have been granted the final interview with him before his death. I'm... Dialogue danny 2007-06-11T12:24:14-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000044.html 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... Danny Speaks danny 2007-02-13T11:07:44-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000043.html Nader Hashemi and I expose the erroneous reasoning in neocon arguments about Iran in this Truthdig take-down of Los Angeles Times columnist Max Boot.... Going Postel danny 2006-11-01T01:04:05-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000042.html 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.... Danny Speaks danny 2006-09-25T21:13:28-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000040.html My interview with the Iranian philosopher and political prisoner Ramin Jahanbegloo, currently in solitary confinement in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, from the new issue of the journal Logos. See this... Dialogue danny 2006-07-19T14:54:48-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000039.html The first and second installments of a long interview I'm doing with the Bulgarian-born, Paris-based writer Tzvetan Todorov can be found on the website of the journal Critical Inquiry. The... Dialogue danny 2006-06-27T11:20:01-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000038.html From the Summer 2006 issue of the journal Salmagundi, my interview with Fred Halliday--Middle East scholar, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, former member of the... Dialogue danny 2006-06-01T16:19:52-06:00 http://www.postelservice.com/archives/000037.html Francis Fukuyama reconsiders his famous 'end of history' argument in this spirited debate on openDemocracy magazine. The centerpiece is the Afterword Fukuyama has penned for a new paperback edition of... General Delivery danny 2006-05-16T07:45:40-06:00