Interviews 1988-2001

All interviews appeared in New Perspectives Quarterly. Interviews later reprinted elsewhere, or printed only in Mother Jones, Sierra, or Utne Reader are noted.

• Isabel Allende [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] - Chilean author
• Maya Angelou - author, professor
• Margaret Atwood - Canadian author (Mother Jones only)
• Bruce Babbitt - Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Interior
• Derrick Bell - author, professor
• Wendell Berry [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] - author, farmer
• Bill Bradley - U.S. senator, author
• Rocco Buttiglione - Italian professor of philosophy, counselor to the Pope
• Cuauhtemoc Cardenas - Mexican presidential candidate of the PRD in 1988 and 1994; currently mayor of Mexico City
• Theo Colborn - senior scientist, World Wildlife Fund (Mother Jones only)
• Angela Davis - author, activist, professor
• Freimut Duve - German Bundestag deputy
• Barbara Ehrenreich - author, essayist
• Jean Bethke Elshtain - author, political philosopher (Utne Reader only)
• Stuart Ewen - professor, author
• Carlos Fuentes - Mexican author (reprinted in the Los Angeles Times and Utne Reader)
• Costa Gavras - Greek film director
• Frank Gehry - architect
• Todd Gitlin - author, professor
• Arlie Hochschild - author, sociologist (Mother Jones only)
• Piet Hu - astrophysicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Ivan Illich - philosopher, author (reprinted in 1996 book At Century’s End: Great Minds Reflect On Our Times)
• Arata Isozaki [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] - Japanese architect (reprinted in Octavio Paz's journal Vuelta)
• Jesse Jackson - activist
• Gish Jen [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] - author
• Jamaica Kincaid - author (Mother Jones only)
• Leopold Kohr - author, political philosopher
• Nicholas Lemann - author
• Robert Jay Lifton - author, psychiatrist (Utne Reader only; reprinted in a collection of essays and interviews on peace issues by Norton in 1996.)
• Bo Lozoff - author, prison activist (Utne Reader only)
• Nelson Mandela [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] - South African President (reprinted worldwide, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate newswire)
• Ali Mazrui - professor, host of PBS series "The Africans" (reprinted in Utne Reader)
• Carlos Monsivais - Mexican social critic and journalist, author
• Heiner Muller - German playwright and director
• Sandra Day O'Connor [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Octavio Paz [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] - Nobel Prize-winning author (reprinted worldwide courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate newswire)
• Jayne Anne Phillips - author
• Ilya Prigogine [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] - Nobel Prize-winning physicist, author (reprinted in Octavio Paz's journal Vuelta)
• Richard Rodriguez [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] - author, essayist
• Patricia Schroeder - former U.S. Congresswoman, author
• Huston Smith - author, theologian (Mother Jones only)
• Hans Jurgen Syberberg - German theater and film director (reprinted in Harper's and in the 1996 book At Century’s End: Great Minds Reflect On Our Times)
• Tewolde Egziabher - Ethiopia’s environment minister (Sierra only)
• Cornel West [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] - author, professor