Revolutionary thought experts Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra, and Brent Hayes Edwards discuss arguments against racism and colonialism, artistic expression in oppressive conditions, and politically substantive language in the inner life of the 20th century. They explore works by Sartre, de Beauvoir, Fanon, Arendt, Naipaul, Nandy, Lessing, Mandelstam, Du Bois, Césaire, Baraka, and Lorde.