When the Towers Fell

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Critical Theory

A Call for Lasting Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Tariq Ali is a political activist, writer, historian, and filmmaker, whose books include Pakistan: Military Rule or People’s Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1983), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), Bush in Babylon (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), A Banker for All Seasons (2007), The Duel (2008), The Obama Syndrome (2010), and The Extreme Centre: A Warning (2015). He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review. (Photograph by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ali#/media/File:Tariq_Ali_2011.jpg">Boberger</a>.)

Tariq Ali

Viken Berberian is a writer and essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Granta, and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of the novels The Cyclist (2002) and Das Kapital (2007), and, with Yann Kebbi, of the graphic novel&nbsp;The Structure is Rotten,&nbsp;Comrade (2019). (Photograph by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viken_Berberian#/media/File:Viken_BERBERIAN_-_Comédie_Du_livre_2009_-_P1070987.jpg">Esby</a>.)

Viken Berberian

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, social theorist, and political activist. He is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Noam Chomsky

Judith Herman is Professor of clinical psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the Women's Mental Health Collective. She is author of Father-Daughter Incest (Harvard University Press, 1981; reprinted 2000) and Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Aiolence (Basic Books, 1992; reprinted 1997), and is the recipient of the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the 2000 Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women's Association. In 2003 she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Judith Herman

Cornel West is an American philosopher, activist, social critic, and public intellectual. Among his most influential books are&nbsp;Race Matters (1994), The Future of the Race (1996, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), and Democracy Matters (2004). (Photograph by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cornel_West_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg">Gage Skidmore</a>.)

Cornel West

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002-2008). Her books include Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (1986); Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (1992; winner of the National Educational Association’s Book of the Year Award); The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996; reissued in 2002); The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era&nbsp;(2002); and The Rights of Others: Aliens, Citizens and Residents (2004), which won the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association and the North American Society for Social Philosophy Award.

Seyla Benhabib

Harold Aram Veeser is professor of English at the City College of New York and the&nbsp;Graduate Center at CUNY. He is the author of&nbsp;Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism, and the editor of The New Historicism, Confessions of the Critics, and other volumes.

Harold Aram Veeser

Shahidul Alam&nbsp;is a photojournalist, teacher, and social activist based from Bangladesh. (Photograph by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahidul_Alam#/media/File:Shahidul_Alam_(38123779086).jpg">Christopher Michel</a>.)

Shahidul Alam

Amitav Ghosh&nbsp;is a prominent Bengali Indian author best known for his work in English.

Amitav Ghosh

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York.