For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff is joined by historian and public intellectual Tariq Ali to discuss the latest in world politics and his new essay collection, The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan.

Tariq Ali is a political activist, journalist, historian, novelist, and filmmaker based in London. He is a longstanding member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, most recently Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship (Verso, 2018) and The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold (Verso, 2021).

Cover photo: Tariq Ali speaking at Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb from Wikimedia Commons

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