9798993749433: Forever Wars

Synopsis

The imperial anxieties of the American elite. 

Featuring a roundtable on Iran with Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, Naghmeh Sohrabi, and Alex Shams. 

Also in this issue:
Dispatches from Tehran, Beirut, Baghdad, and the West Bank
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on ending elite impunity
David Waldstreicher on America at 250
Harsha Walia on how not to abolish ICE
J. Lester Feder on the queer face of war in Ukraine
Andrew Holter on Mary McCarthy's Vietnam War reporting
Farah Bakaari on Somaliland's empty triumph
Reviews of Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff; The Mastermind by Kelly Reichardt; and recent books on disability and the good life.

Contributors: Joelle Abi-Rached, Farah Bakaari, Luke Dunne, Lester Feder, Jan Grue, Andrew Holter, Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, Jacob Rubin, Nabil Salih, Alex Shams, Raja Shehadeh, Naghmeh Sohrabi, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, David Waldstreicher, Harsha Walia

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About the Authors

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Elite Capture, a contributor to Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò’s public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The GuardianThe New YorkerThe New RepublicThe NationBoston ReviewDissentAl Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.



David Waldstreicher is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His latest book is The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.



Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee.

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