Danny Glover Interview
Posted: November 30, 2002For most people, Danny Glover's name conjures up the Lethal Weapon series of movies. But when he was on C-SPAN recently, he was identified as "actor and human rights activist."
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut Interview
Posted: June 12, 2003He was chain-smoking Pall Malls throughout the afternoon we spent together in his living room. When I pointed the obvious out to him, he said, “I’m trying to die. But it’s not...
View ArticleEdwidge Danticat Interview
Posted: October 1, 2003Edwidge Danticat won the American Book Award for her 1998 novel, The Farming of Bones. Born in Haiti in 1969, she immigrated to Brooklyn in 1981 to join her parents, who had come...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky Interview
Posted: April 30, 2004"The premises are accepted, and within that framework you can have criticism," he told me. He advises citizens to break down the embedded assumptions. Few have been doing that for...
View ArticleBruce Cockburn Interview
Posted: February 28, 2005Bruce Cockburn has won practically every music award that his native country, Canada, has to offer. The recipient of multiple Junos (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys), he...
View ArticleSeymour Hersh Interview
Posted: March 31, 2005Seymour "Sy" Hersh is a legendary investigative journalist. The Pulitzer Prize-winner catapulted to fame when as a freelancer he broke the story of the infamous My Lai massacre of...
View ArticleGore Vidal Interview
Posted: October 25, 2006“Bush is a thug. I think there is something really wrong with him,” says the writer.
View ArticleInterview with Arundhati Roy
Posted: July 16, 2007There is a high-stakes drama playing out in India these days, and the novelist Arundhati Roy is one of its most visible actors.Topics: CultureInterviewsNuclear Weapons
View ArticleAn Interview with Chris Hedges
Posted: July 14, 2011"When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures."
View ArticleArundhati Roy
Posted: September 29, 2011More than a decade after she burst onto the world literary scene with The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy is again working on a novel. She wouldnt say much about it, other...
View ArticleAmartya Sen
Posted: September 29, 2011Amartya Sen of India won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998 for his pioneering work on development issues. He has focused attention on the social sources of famine, poverty,...
View ArticleVandana Shiva
Posted: September 29, 2011Vandana Shiva is a burst of creative energy and intellectual power. Born in India in 1952, she is one of the Third Worlds most eloquent and passionate voices on the...
View ArticleAn Interview with Jodie Evans
Posted: November 30, 2011"We're always trying to find ways that we can disturb power," says the co-founder of Code Pink.Topics: ActivismInterviewsWar and PeaceWomen's Rights
View ArticleGore Vidal on the Media and the American People
Posted: August 1, 2012"It’s the stupidity that will really drive me away from this country." | Read his interview from 2006.
View ArticleDavid Suzuki Interview
Posted: December 27, 2013I met with David Suzuki in November in Santa Fe at the Lannan Foundation, where he was giving a lecture.Topics: Climate ChangeEnvironmentInterviews
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