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
Ramin Jahanbegloo, Hossein Derakhshan and openDemocracy
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.
Ramin Jahanbegloo: an open letter to Iran's president
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.
The 'end of history' revisited: Francis Fukuyama and his critics
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.
'Conscripts of modernity: the tragedy of colonial enlightenment,' David Scott
“The need to reconceptualise the past in order to reimagine a more usable future.”
Fukuyama's moment: a neocon schism opens
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.
Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq
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.
What was initially an anti-war argument is now a matter of public record. It is widely recognised that the Bush administration was not honest about the reasons it gave for invading Iraq.
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