KA Dilday

KA Dilday worked on the New York Times opinion page until autumn 2005, when she began a writing fellowship with the Institute of Current World Affairs. During the period of the fellowship, she is travelling between North Africa and France. KA Dilday is currently planning a New York office for openDemocracy.

The Shutdown: Forty years in the making

What is going on in the United States? Why the first government shutdown in nearly two decades? Kay Dilday sits down with Colin Greer to trace the origins of the current crisis.

By KA Dilday

/ 14 Oct 2013

Michael Jackson: crossing over

Was Michael Jackson the most famous man on the planet? The British former child actor, Mark Lester, claimed that in one of the many encomiums offered following the news of

By KA Dilday

/ 26 Jun 2009

Only in America (part V)

In the wake of Obama's victory, KA Dilday begins to digest an unprecedented result. Catch up with the earlier segments of her conversation wtih Anthony Barnett: part 1,

By KA Dilday

/ 6 Nov 2008

Only in America (part I)

KA Dilday & Anthony Barnett's email discussion of Barack Obama's role in shaping the future

By KA Dilday

/ 5 Nov 2008

Only in America (part III)

In the third portion of her exchange with Anthony Barnett, KA Dilday argues that majority-minority dynamics in the US would make an Obama presidency unique and incomparable to the rise

By KA Dilday

/ 4 Nov 2008

America's pious song and dance

George W Bush's daughter was married this month by the same minister who delivered the inaugural prayer for Bush in 2000 and 2004. He is Kirbyjon Caldwell, a

By KA Dilday

/ 19 May 2008

The London - and Obama - effect: back to being black

I'M black again. I was black in Mississippi in the 1970s but sometime in the 1980s I became African-American, with a brief pause at Afro-American. Someone, I think

By KA Dilday

/ 28 Feb 2008

The gaze of strangers: Morocco, male love and modernity

In December 2007, the Moroccan court of justice sentenced six men to jail terms of between two and ten months for the crime of homosexuality. The men had been filmed

By KA Dilday

/ 30 Jan 2008

Language, immigration and citizenship

For several days this winter I was in a French hospital, in a small clinic on the southern edge of Paris. Like most of Paris's outer neighbourhoods it

By KA Dilday

/ 4 Dec 2007

Intelligence, inequality and race

I remember when my IQ was first tested - I was 12 years old. A teacher had selected a few of us (of all racial backgrounds) to apply to a

By KA Dilday

/ 7 Nov 2007

Defenders of the nation

In Sweden, integration minister Nyamko Sabuni, a naturalised citizen of Congolese-Burundian origin, ardently insists on intrusive measures to ensure that Muslims adhere to Sweden's laws. In the Netherlands,

By KA Dilday

/ 17 Oct 2007

Morocco’s illusory democracy

I was born in the United States and I vote for several reasons, not least because many people died so that I could vote. In the 1970s when I moved

By KA Dilday

/ 21 Sep 2007