Álvaro Guzmán Bastida is a Spanish-born writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. He holds an M.S. in Journalism and an M.A. in Politics and Government, both from Columbia University, and has worked as a producer for Al Jazeera and a reporter and writer for newspapers in magazines in Spain, Argentina, the UK, and the Netherlands. He is the author of the book Trump as a Symptom, published in 2019 by the Spanish imprint Lengua de Trapo. Most recently, he helped produce the Netflix series Unnatural Selection (2019) and Immigration Nation (2020). You can follow him on twitter here

October 13, 2022

Interviews

The Geopolitics of Stuff

A discussion on supply chains, commodities, and climate

, Tim Sahay, Thea Riofrancos, Skanda Amarnath, Joe Weisenthal

The material economy is back. Economists and commentators in recent decades had heralded (or lamented) the arrival of an automated, redundant, frictionless system of international commerce. But over the past two years, multiple global crises have exposed the fragile physical…

October 10, 2020

Interviews

Change the Furniture

An interview with Mark Blyth.

Mark Blyth is William R. Rhodes Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University and a Faculty Fellow at Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies. His research examines how the interests of states and economic actors shape ideological consensus and…