Interviews


  • Oxford Political Review Interviews Noam Chomsky

    Oxford Political Review Interviews Noam Chomsky

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    Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong interviews Noam Chomsky – linguist, political scientist, philosopher, writer, activist, and one of the most iconic American voices of the 20th Century.

  • A Conversation with Professor Wang Gungwu

    A Conversation with Professor Wang Gungwu

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    Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong speaks with Professor Wang Gungwu, the former Vice Chancellor of University of Hong Kong and highly acclaimed historian of Chinese migrant history. Prof. Wang and Brian discuss his academic work, the past, present, future of Chinese politics, and his musings on philosophy of history. OPR: A lot of your works have focussed…

  • A Conversation with Carlo Cottarelli – Italian Economist, Former Prime Minister-Designate, and IMF Executive Director

    A Conversation with Carlo Cottarelli – Italian Economist, Former Prime Minister-Designate, and IMF Executive Director

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    The Oxford Political Review speaks with Carlo Cottarelli, former Executive Director of the IMF (Italy etc.) and Prime Minister-designate of Italy in 2018 during the political crisis. Cottarelli is a veteran IMF bureaucrat and Italian public economist. In the conversation, Brian and Cottarelli speak over the state and future of Italian politics, the EU and…

  • An Interview with Robert Reich: On the Future of Labour

    An Interview with Robert Reich: On the Future of Labour

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    The Oxford Political Review speaks with Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton’s administration, leading labour economist, and current Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. In the interview, Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong and Robert Reich discuss the…

  • Interview with Professor Amia Srinivasan

    Interview with Professor Amia Srinivasan

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    I was first exposed to your wonderful works through The Aptness of Anger, about which I have two lingering questions that have always intrigued me – a) if you were to develop an aptness-centric account or defense of anger, how extensive would that account be, as compared with, say, Fanon or Sartre’s conception of violence; b)…

  • An Interview with Saeb Erekat: Leading Diplomat and Spokesperson for the PLO

    An Interview with Saeb Erekat: Leading Diplomat and Spokesperson for the PLO

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    Guest Contributor Samuel Blanes Targett speaks to Saeb Erekat, Palestinian diplomat who serves as one of the most prominent spokespersons and foreign policy experts for Palestine. At the time of the interview, he serves as the chief of the Negotiations Department of the PLO. Q: Since your earliest days as a public figure, you have…

  • A Conversation with NASA Chief Scientist, Dr. Jim Green

    A Conversation with NASA Chief Scientist, Dr. Jim Green

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    The Oxford Political Review interviews Dr. Jim Green, Chief Scientist at NASA and one of planetary and space science’s leading contemporary voices. Dr. Jim Green discusses NASA’s exploration of Mars, the link between climate change and space exploration, and the future of space exploration in politically transformative times. Dr. Jim Green’s booming voice sonorously greets…

  • The Case for Hope in Resisting Climate Change: A Conversation with Michael Mann

    The Case for Hope in Resisting Climate Change: A Conversation with Michael Mann

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    Brian Wong, Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review, sits down with Michael Mann, leading climate change scientist and theorist, recipient of Tyler Prize, and perhaps most famously known for his exposition of the existential threat confronting humanity through his “Hockey Stick Graph” in his 1999 article. A Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the…

  • A Conversation with Hindol Sengupta

    A Conversation with Hindol Sengupta

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    Brian Wong, Editor-in-Chief, speaks to Hindol Sengupta, Indian historian and journalist, and an Editor-at-Large at Fortune India. Hindol and Brian converse over the future of global politics, India under Modi, and Hindol’s personal path. Global Politics  In our previous conversation we discussed the problems that seem to be proliferating amongst the self-anointed ‘ruling Establishment’ in…

  • A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas: Dismantling the Structure

    A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas: Dismantling the Structure

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    Oxford Political Review (Special Correspondent Daniil Ukhorskiy and Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong) speaks with Anand Giriharadas, author of Winners Take All, editor-at-large of Time and former correspondent for the New York Times. He is known for his writing on wealth inequality and his critique of elite power structures and the philanthropic industry. When we first sat…