All articles filed in Interviews

Samuel McIlhagga interviews Richard Seymour, author of The Disenchanted Earth, on socialism and degrowth, the ecofascist threat, and envisioning a planetary, humanist “re-enchantment.”

Sam Russek interviewed Ramza, an encampment resident in New York City who has been subjected to repeated arrest and police harassment. Sweeps have worsened under Mayor Eric Adams’s punitive policies.

Shane Burley interviewed Kelly Weill on her new book, Off the Edge, fringe conspiracism, and the erosion of consensus reality.

Clinton Williamson spoke to archaeologist David Wengrow about his book with co-author David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything, and about how their new interpretation of the past confounds conventional histories.

Samuel McIlhagga spoke to Tariq Ali about his new essay collection on Afghanistan, the country’s history, and the devastation of the occupation.

Robert Raymond interviews Dr. Devon Price on their book Laziness Does Not Exist, out from Atria Books. How has capitalist ideology constructed and profited from our ideas of productivity and idleness?

Samuel McIlhagga interviews Prof. Timothy Brennan, author of Places of Mind, an intellectual biography of Edward Said, on Said’s life, his Marxism, and the evolution of his advocacy for Palestine.

Steven Monacelli interviews Shane Burley on his new book, Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse, out now from AK Press. 

Brendan O’Connor: I came to writing about the far right during the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in 2016. I was working at Gawker at the time, and there were already people covering the story, so I had to look around for other angles in because I really felt like there’s something very strange going on here.