We Need a Culture of Care: A Conversation with author, journalist, essayist and critic Liza Featherstone

Liza is a columnist at Jacobin and The New Republic, as well as a contributing writer at The Nation. In this podcast, Featherstone explains the structural challenges Democrats must overcome in order to meet the needs of ordinary people who are hurting—we discuss issues of crime, homelessness, childcare, and labor, taking Biden to task for folding on sick pay for rail workers, and seeing what positives can be derived from things like the Inflation Reduction Act and the surge in progressive young voters.

Liza Featherstone is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation, published by O/R Books in 2018, as well as Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004).

She co-authored Students Against Sweatshops (Verso, 2002) and editor of False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Verso, 2016). She’s currently editing a collection of Alexandra Kollontai’s work for OR Books and International Publishers, and writing the introduction to that volume.

Featherstone’s work has been published in Lux, TV Guide, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., The American Prospect, Columbia Journalism Review, Glamour, Teen Vogue, Dissent, The Guardian, In These Times and many other publications.

Liza teaches in NYU’s Literary Reportage program as well as at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs.

She is proud to be an active member of New York City Democratic Socialists of America and of UAW Local 7902.