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About Danny Postel

Danny Postel is an international journalist of ideas living in Chicago. He is the author of Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran and co-editor, with Nader Hashemi, of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future. He is editor of The Common Review and contributing editor of Logos. His website is here.

Articles by Danny Postel

Thursday 29th April

Who is responsible? An interview with Fred Halliday

Danny Postel, 29 April 2010
Fred Halliday, who died on 26 April, talks to Danny Postel about realpolitik, religion, universal rights and the pitfalls of the Left. He discusses the need to combine solidarity with critical distance, to know what is really happening in Third World countries. This interview, published in Salmagundi, not previously available on the web, was recorded on 23 November 2005, in Chicago.
Thursday 21st September

Ramin Jahanbegloo, Hossein Derakhshan and openDemocracy

Danny Postel, 21 September 2006
openDemocracy's publication of Hossein Derakhshan's article about the release from detention of the Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo was a serious lapse in editorial judgment, says Danny Postel.
Tuesday 23rd May

Ramin Jahanbegloo: an open letter to Iran's president

openDemocracy and Danny Postel, 23 May 2006
The Iranian philosopher and openDemocracy contributor Ramin Jahanbegloo was arrested on 27 April 2006 at Tehran airport. In this message to Iran's leaders, writers, scholars and journalists from around the world call for his release.
Monday 1st May

The 'end of history' revisited: Francis Fukuyama and his critics

Danny Postel, 1 May 2006
Francis Fukuyama's renowned argument about universal history and liberal democracy remains a source of dispute. openDemocracy is publishing the author's new Afterword to "The End of History and the Last Man", followed by reflections from international thinkers on this seminal work. Here, Danny Postel introduces Fukuyama's essay and the symposium.
Wednesday 24th August

'Conscripts of modernity: the tragedy of colonial enlightenment,' David Scott

Danny Postel, 24 August 2005
“The need to reconceptualise the past in order to reimagine a more usable future.”
Wednesday 27th October

Fukuyama's moment: a neocon schism opens

Danny Postel, 27 October 2004
The Iraq war opened a fratricidal split among United States neo–conservatives. Danny Postel examines the bitter dispute between two leading neocons, Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer, and suggests that Fukuyama’s critique of the Iraq war and decision not to vote for George W Bush is a significant political as well as intellectual moment.
Wednesday 15th October

Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq

Danny Postel, 15 October 2003
Are the ideas of the conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss a shaping influence on the Bush administration’s world outlook? Danny Postel interviews Shadia Drury – a leading scholarly critic of Strauss – and asks her about the connection between Plato’s dialogues, secrets and lies, and the United States-led war in Iraq.
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