DANNY POSTEL

Danny Postel is the creator and host of Free Associations Radio in Chicago. His insightful on-air interviews have earned him a dedicated following, as have his print interviews, a selection of which appear below. Mr. Postel's work has appeared in, among others, In These Times, The Nation, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he currently writes.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

11.8.02: "Sidney Hook, an Intellectual Street Fighter, Reconsidered".

7.12.02: "The Awful Truth"
A photography exhibition unearths the painful history of lynching in America.

6.7.02: "The Life and the Mind"
More and more biographies of philosophers are being written. Do they tell us anything important about philosophy?

4.5.02: "Is Race Real? How Does Identity Matter?"
As he leaves Harvard for Princeton, K. Anthony Appiah's scholarship takes a new direction.

3.8.02: "From Tragedy and Bloodshed, Michael Ignatieff Draws Human-Rights Ideals".
In diverse writings, he challenges those who would avoid taking responsibility.

12.7.01: "Outsiders in America".
A scholar explores the relationship between democracy and immigrants (a profile of Bonnie Honig).

Free Associations Radio [Audio]

Danny Postel interviews Thomas Frank about Commodify Your Dissent


Danny Postel interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about her book Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Verso, 1997).

11.01.98: "Mad Cow USA." Danny Postel interviews Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.

9.15.98: Danny Postel interviews Christopher Hitchens about The Missionary Position (Verso, 1997), Hitchens' book on Mother Teresa.

In These Times

5.14.01: Danny Postel interviews Bogdan Denitch.

The Nation

11.25.02: Danny Postel interviews Jürgen Habermas.

The Progressive

12.98: Danny Postel interviews Ariel Dorfman.

Exquisite Corpse

Issue 10: Danny Postel talks about women and the surrealist revolution with Penelope Rosemont.

Left History

Issue 6.1: Danny Postel interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about her book Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Verso, 1997).

LiP Magazine

11.01.98: Danny Postel interviews Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. "Mad Cow USA."

9.15.98: Danny Postel interviews Christopher Hitchens about The Missionary Position (Verso, 1997), Hitchens' book on Mother Teresa.

Z Magazine

3.96: Danny Postel interviews Noel Ignatiev [.pdf], professor of History at Harvard University, and co-founder of the journal Race Traitor.