Tariq Ali Audio & Video

In the second of a series of presentations entitled The Empire Dialogues, this panel features Tariq Ali, Jerry Sanders, and Ruth Rosen examining U.S. policy...

Host Harry Kreisler speaks with Tariq Ali, a British-Pakistani journalist, novelist, playwright, publisher, filmmaker, and renowned social critic about Islam, empire, and the left.

Noam Chomsky, who has said, "If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all," was born in 1928 in Philadelphia.

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer and journalist Tariq Ali for a discussion of Pakistan and its relations with the United States.

Tariq Ali was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1944. While at Punjab University, Ali organized public demonstrations against Pakistan's military dictatorship, and was consequently banned from participating in student politics.

Writer and political activist Tariq Ali discusses the historical implementations and alternate versions of communism and his new book, The Idea of Communism.