Folks should check out my friend Danny Postel's interview with the Bulgarian-French philosopher Tzvetan Todorov. It's a wide-ranging discussion that touches on polemics, the 2005 riots in France, the Danish cartoon imbroglio and the need for a political Europe, among much, much else.
Brian Cook was an editor at In These Times from 2003 to 2009. He now works on the editorial staff of Playboy magazine.