Right-Wing American Misunderstandings About South Africa / Eve Fairbanks
Eve Fairbanks joins us to discuss her essay, “The Myth of the Police State: No one, not even the supposed beneficiaries, is protected.” The piece appears in the collection, How We See It: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump.
“How We See It” is published by the award-winning Dial Magazine which covers culture, politics and ideas, with a focus on locally-sourced writing from around the world.
Eve’s writing focuses on South Africa.
Other essays in, “How We See It,” offer viewpoints of the US from India, South Africa, Ukraine, Palestine, Taiwan, Turkiye, Cuba, Egypt, Argentina, Italy, and Ireland.
This is the second in a series of interviews we are doing with contributors to "How We See It.”
Back in July, we spoke with Donal Gill about his view of the US from Canada.
Eve Fairbanks
Eve Fairbanks writes about change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values, and our ideas of ourselves. Her debut book The Inheritors, about South Africa, won the 2023 PEN/America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and was a 2024 finalist for South Africa's top literary prize, the Sunday Times Award. A former political writer for The New Republic and current senior editor at Foreign Affairs, her essays and reportage have been published in The Guardian Long Reads, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, among other outlets. Born in Washington D.C. and raised in Virginia, she’s lived in South Africa for sixteen years.