Co-Executive Editor, Public Seminar and Professor of History, The New School for Social Research

Podcast

In this episode, feminist sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host Tristan Taormino discusses her new memoir, “A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten”

September 6, 2023 • by Claire Potter

In this episode of Why Now?, feminist sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host Tristan Taormino discusses her new memoir, "A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten"...

Podcast

In Episode 35, Claire Potter chats with historian Drew Faust about fighting back, making change, and her new memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

August 28, 2023 • by Claire Potter

In Episode 35, Claire Potter chats with historian Drew Faust about fighting back, making change, and her new memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury...

Podcast

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 28

June 26, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin about his new book, "Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism" ...

Podcast

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 26

June 14, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Martha Hodes about her new memoir, "My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering"...

Podcast

Lavender and Red

June 7, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Bettina Aptheker about her book "Communists in Closets: Queering the History, 1930s-1990s"...

Podcast

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 23

May 17, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Sam Franklin about his new book, "The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History."...

Sex & Gender

The Courage of E. Jean Carroll

Telling one person you were raped is hard; telling a nation is heroic

May 11, 2023 • by Claire Potter

It would be foolish to tell anyone not to be afraid of Donald Trump, and it would be foolish not to fear the consequences of being widely known as a person who has been raped....

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This book describes a part of the African American civil rights movement that many people don’t know—perhaps because it was run, and the battles were fought, by Black women who saw their activism as an extension of their commitment as mothers....

Capitalism

A World to Win

Talking with socialist feminist Nancy Fraser about her recent book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

May 1, 2023 • by Nancy Fraser and Claire Potter

Claire Potter sits down with New School for Social Research political theorist Nancy Fraser to discuss her latest book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It (Verso, 2022)....