Columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum and the New York Times, among others. She is the author of Violence: Humans in Dark Times, (City Lights, 2018, with Brad Evans) and Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life (Verso, 2019).
Which world power’s energy ‘strategy’ will determine our planetary future? Will America’s fossil fuel isolationism be the defining factor, exacerbated by its incoherent war in the Middle East, tipping global oil supplies into chaos? Or will China’s new-level efficiency in rolling out affordable renewable energy products set the bar?
Does ‘counter-violence’ damage the antifascist cause? Or is it delusory to talk about non-violence in the face of an opponent with no such scruples? Natasha Lennard explains to James Miller why antifascism rejects debate as an effective response to the fascist threat.