Yasmin Nair is a writer, cultural critic, and longtime contributor to Current Affairs. She also seems to possess an uncanny ability to predict political events before they happen: she warned that Graham Platner was headed for trouble before his campaign imploded, declared that “Kamala Harris Will Lose” when the prevailing wisdom had her winning, and foresaw the failures of DACA and the growing problem of plagiarism in publishing. (She has also written presciently about the political cult of personality, the weaponization of trauma, and the ways trauma discourse can be absorbed into capitalism.) Yasmin has been highly critical of the left for failing to confront problems of sexism, for example in her article “Cesar Chavez and Why the Left Is a Pit of Misogyny.”

So, what does Nair see that everyone else misses? She joined editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson for a conversation on political wishful thinking, the repeated failures of liberal and leftist politics to grapple with misogyny, and the left’s tendency to mistake image for substance. The interview has been condensed and edited for grammar and readability.

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