New Left Review

Even on the war in the Gulf, the Iran war, there's a certain equivocation.

Something that's disturbed me is there's the new left review has a sister publication called Sidecar.

They published a few months ago, before the war began, an article that extolled the uprising against the Islamic Republic, mentioned virtually nothing about the external orchestration of it.

Again, if the Iranian people want to rise up against the Islamic Republic, that's their right to do so.

And Saigar basically dismissed this.

um which basically was doing propaganda for the us intelligence services passive propaganda and this was basically from

the new left review so you know what you're saying david and this is a very important point but let me put it in slightly different terms i mean what you're calling identity politics it really what it amounts to is a dissolution of actual politics, because what it reduces politics to is it's all about what's happening to me and people like me.

It's not about, you know, here we are.

He is an author of many books, most notably, and these are just a very few of them, Callahan, The Road to Number 10, Hostage to History, Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger, No One Left to Lie to, The Values of the Worst Family, and his most recent book, as I understand it, A Long, Short War, The Postponed Liberation of Iraq.

For many years, he has been a columnist or a contributor to such periodicals as The Nation, Vanity Fair, The Times Literary Supplement, and he has been a Washington editor of Harper's, a book critic for Newsday, and he regularly contributes to the London Review of Books, Vogue, I'm having trouble reconciling those two things, and the New Left Review and the Times Literary Supplement.

He has been called, and I hope he takes this as a compliment, acerbic and nonconformist with a predilection for irony and satire.

He is often controversial, and however, Having said that, Basic Books had enough confidence in his 2002 book, the one most at issue here, Why Orwell Matters, to order a very large first printing for a scholarly work.

This is published by Verso.

It's a small house that's the publishing arm of the New Left Review.

I don't think I've had an advance yet, and if I told you how much it was, you wouldn't believe anyway, because you'd think I was lowballing it.

Mrs. Clinton, I've met her.

Okay, thank you.

Here's Alyssa Battistoni, a professor of political science at Barnard College, who has published in academic journals like the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, and NOMOS, and written essays for the New Left Review, The Nation, Dissent, N Plus One, Boston Review, and Jacobin.

She's a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute and on the editorial board of Dissent.

Alyssa is a co-author of A Planet to Win, Why We Need a Green New Deal, and the author of the book that we're discussing today, Free Gifts, Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

Rhode Island pride, always.

That was the second in a two-part interview.

Alyssa Battistoni is a professor of political science at Barnard College, who's published in academic journals like the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, and Nomos, and written essays for the New Left Review, The Nation, Dissent, N Plus One, Boston Review, and Jacobin.

She's a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute and on the editorial board of Dissent.

His books include The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.

And Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British historian, activist, filmmaker, and longtime associate of The New Left Review.

His books include You Can't Please All, Memoirs 1980 to 2024.

We welcome you both back to Democracy Now! Rashid Khalidi, let's begin with you.