Essays & Interviews

2013

June, Derrick was interviewed for Systemic Capital.com on Deep Green Resistance.

May, Derrick’s essay “Thoughts on the Apocalypse: Fight for What You Love” was published on Terrain.org. Read it here.

March, Derrick was interviewed for the upcoming film “Clearcut Nation”. Watch it here.

March/April, Derrick’s essay “The Victim Liked It” was published in Orion.

March, Derrick’s essay “Age of the Sociopath” was translated here into Swedish.

Spring 2013, Derrick’s essay “Age of the Sociopath” was published in the Earth Island Journal.

January/ February, Derrick’s essay “Culture of Blunder” was published in Orion.

 

2012

September/October, Derrick’s essay “To Protect and Serve” was published in Orion.

July/August, Derrick’s essay “Self – Evident Truths” was published in Orion.

May/June, Derrick’s essay “Democracy of Destruction” was published in Orion.

Spring, Derrick has an essay in The (Un)Occupy Movement:  Autonomy of Consciousness, Practical Solutions, Human Equality, by Mankh.

April, Derrick’s essay “Civilization and Decolonization” was translated here into Serbian.

March/April, Derrick’s essay “Loaded Words” was published in Orion.

March, Derrick’s essay “Loaded Words” was translated here into Serbian.

February, Derrick’s essay “Forget Shorter Showers” was reprinted in Funky Raw.

January/February, Derrick’s essay “Not in my Name” was published in Orion.

January, Derrick’s essay “A New Declaration” in the Occupied Wall Street Journal.

January 24, Derrick’s article “A Modest Proposal — How Cigar Cutters Can Save the Environment” in EcoWatch.

January, an essay by Derrick was published here in Polish.

 

2011

December 24, Derrick’s essay “Forget Shorter Showers” was translated into Polish.

December 11, Derrick’s interview in Zephyr is here.

September, Derrick’s essay “Imagine” was published in Orion.

September 29, Derrick’s interview with Cayte Bosler is here.

August, Derrick’s essay “Can’t Buy Me Change” appeared in Earth Island Journal.

July 16, Derrick was interviewed by Frank Smecker on Truthout.

July, Derrick’s essay “This Culture Is #/?*#-+” was published in Orion.

June 7, Derrick’s essay “Beyond Hope” was published on the Pacific Free Press website.

May 16, Derrick was interviewed by Autonomous Music, published here.

May, Derrick’s essay “To Live or Not to Live” was published in Orion.

March, “Miksi lapset vihaavat koulua,” in Kerberos, translated into Finnish by Tero Tähtinen.

March, Derrick’s essay “The Age of Oops” was published in Orion.

February, An interview with Derrick was published here.

January, Derrick’s essay “The Tyranny of Entitlement” was published in Orion.

January, Derrick’s interview with Kalle Lasn was pubished on All Things Healing.

January, A review of “Now This War Has Two Sides” was published here.

January, Derrick was interviewed by Pulse Berlin.

 

2010

December,  a review of Resistance Against Empire was published here.

December, What We Leave Behind was reviewed in Rosebud Magazine.

December 2010: Derrick’s essay “World Gone Mad” is available in Turkish here.

November, Derrick’s essay “Mutual Aid” was published in Orion.

November, an interview with Derrick was published at Vancouver Media Coop.

September, Derrick’s essay “World Gone Mad” was published in Orion.

August,  Derrick’s essay “Resistance Resisters” was translated into French.

August, Derrick’s book Resistance to Empire was reviewed by Morning Star (UK).

July,  Derrick’s book Resistance to Empire was reviewed by Political Media Review.

July/August, Derrick’s essay “Calling All Fanatics” was published in Orion.

May, Derrick’s comments on BP and the Gulf of Mexico were posted on the Press Action website.

May/June,  Derrick’s article “High on Progress” was published in Orion.

May, Endgame was reviewed on Democratic Underground.

April,  an excerpt of Endgame was published on Common Dreams.

March/April,  Derrick’s essay “Resistance Resisters” was published in Orion.

January/February,  Derrick’s essay “Fifty Simple Ways to Get Off” was published in Orion

 

2009

December, 2009: excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

November/December, Derrick’s essay “Playing for Keeps” was published in Orion.

October 28, Derrick was interviewed by Frank Joseph Smecker on Counterpunch. Read it here.

October 19, Derrick was interviewed by Chris Hedges. Read it here.

September/October, Derrick’s essay “Side With the Living” was published in Orion.

September, Derrick’s Star Wars talk was animated by Frank Lopez. Watch it here.

July/August, “Forget Shorter Showers: Why personal change does not equal political change” in Orion. Read it here. It’s also available in French here.

June 2009, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth. Also posted here on Celsias.

May, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

May, Derrick’s essay “World at Gunpoint” was published in Orion.

April,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

March, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

February 26, Derrick was interviewed in Eugene Weekly

February,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

January, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

 

2008

December, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

November, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

October,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

September,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

August,  “Logging Will Not Make Forests Safer,” in The Daily Triplicate

August,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

August, Derrick was interviewed in Briarpatch: Fighting the War on Error

Summer,  interview with Paul Stamets excerpted in The Ovenbird: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Pfeiffer Nature Center

July, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

June, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

May,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

April,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

Spring Equinox, interview of Jane Caputi in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism

Spring 2008, Derrick was interviewed in Terrain: Northern California’s Environmental Magazine

March,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

February,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

February,  Derrick’s article  “Going Underground: Paul Stamets On the Vast Intelligence Network Beneath Our Feet,” in The Sun.

January,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

 

2007

Derrick’s essay “Civilization: Ongoing Holocausts,”appeared  in Public: Art/Culture/Ideas.

December,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

December, “More and More, Faster and Faster…” in Sun Monthly

Fall,  “Beyond Hope, There is Life Itself,” in The Center Post.

November,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

November, excerpt from Thought to Exist in the Wild in The Sun.

October, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

September,  excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

September,  “Spending Our Way to Sustainability,” in Sun Monthly.

September, Derrick was interviewed in URB

September-November, Derrick was interviewed in Vegan Voice

August, excerpt from Endgame in The Order of the Earth

July, Derrick’s essay”Pretend You Are a River” appeared in Sun Monthly

Summer, “Look Where You Live” (an excerpt from Thought to Exist in the Wild), in Geez.

June,  “Beyond Hope” reprinted in The Indypendent

May,  “Why_People_Hate_Cops” at Feral Scholar.

May, Derrick was interviewed at Abolitionist-Online.

May, Derrick’s piece “False Contracts,” appeared in Sun Monthly

May, Derrick was interviewed in Common Ground.

April, Derrick was interviewed in Noise

April, Derrick’s piece  “Star Wars,” in Sun Monthly

Spring, Derrick was interviewed in Modesto Anarcho

Spring, Derrick was  interviewed in Bear Deluxe Magazine

Spring, Derrick was  interviewed in Jigsaw: The Media Mind

March, Derrick was  interviewed at Under the Concrete

February, Derrick’s piece “Come to Me” was published in Sun Monthly

February, Derrick’s essay  “Love Does Not Imply Pacifism” was published in Sun Monthly

January – March,  “Transfixed by the Headlights of the Hurtling Machine,” reprinted in Carbusters.

January,  “Civilization” was published in Sun Monthly.

 

2006

Derrick was interviewed in No Hope (Eberhardt Press, 3527 NE 15th #127, Portland, OR 97212)

November, Derrick was interviewed at Abolitionist-Online

Fall, “The Lost Star Wars Script” (excerpt from Endgame) was published in Alternative Press Review

Fall, “Irredeemable” (excerpt from Endgame) was published in On Edge.

October,  To Give Our Brightest Deepest Truth

September 24, Derrick’s essay “The Collapse of Civilization” was published in Hindustan Times.

August, Derrick’s essay  “Some Words to Think About” was published  in Keq Ktotoli Oluhk.

August, Derrick was  included in article online in Boston Phoenix.

August, Derrick was  interviewed online for Grist.

July, Derrick was  interviewed online for High Timess

July,  “Beyond Hope” was reprinted in y

July, Derrick was interviewed at abolitionist-online.com

July 2006, Derrick was interviewed in Arthur.

May/June, Derrick’s essay “Beyond Hope” was in Orion.

March.  “You Are The River” was in Shambhala Sun.

 

2005

November/December,  “Monkeywrenching Civilization” was in The Earth First! Jounal.

September, review of “A Methodology of the Heart” was printed in American Anthropologist.

Summer, “Dismantle Globally, Renew Locally,”was  in Species Traitor No. 4.

Summer, “To Change Darth Vader’s Heart, We Must First Change Our Own: Words of Wisdom from the Lost Star Wars Script,” in Lip

Summer, Derrick was interviewed in Lip.

Summer Run,  excerpt from “Strangely Like War” in The Steelhead Special.

Summer, Derrick was interviewed in The Flatlander.

Spring,  excerpt from Strangely Like War was in Pataphysics Publishing Issue.

Spring, Derrick was  interviewed in Standard Magazine.

Spring, Derrick was interviewed in This Time We Fight Back.

April 6, Derrick was interviewed in The Bloomington Alternative.

Spring, “The Noose Tightens: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control,” an excerpt from Welcome to the Machine, in Alternative Press Review

 

2004

Winter 2004/2005, Derrick was interviewed in No Compromise.

Samhain/Yule November-December 2004, “Better Humans and the Nanotech Future,” an excerpt from Welcome to the Machine,  was in The Earth First! Journal

Oct/Nov, Derrick was interviewed in Confluence.

Fall, Derrick’s piece “What Goes Up” was in Matter.

Fall, Derrick’s  interview with Ramsey Clark was reprinted in Rockstalk, The Magazine.

Fall Run/2004,  “Pools of Strength” reprinted in The Steelhead Special.

Oct/Nov, “Definitions of Violence” in Sonoma County Peace Press.

Winter, excerpts from What Goes Up were printed in Arson Zine.

Summer, Derrick was interviewed in Green Anarchy.

Summer, a reprint of “If not now, when?” (co-written with Remedy)was  in The Bay Area Forest Activist.

Spring Run, a reprint of Dave Foreman interview in The Steelhead Special.

Spring, an excerpt of “Walking on Water” was in Camas: The Nature of the West.

May/June, Derrick’s essay “Back to Our Senses” was in Hope.

March/April, Derrick’s essay, “Reading, Writing, Revolution,” appeared in Orion.

March, Derrick’s essay “My Five Most Influential Books”  was in The Ecologist.

March,  “Bursting at the Seams” was printed  in The Ecologist.

Spring,  “The Streams Were Full of Fish” appeared in Terrain.

February, “If not now, when?” (co-written with Remedy) was in The Ecologist.

The introduction from Listening to the Land was reprinted in The Steelhead Special, Issue #44.

My interview with Martin Prechtel was reprinted in The Steelhead Special, Issue #44.

 

2003

Dec/Jan 2003/2004, “A Global Assault on Forests,” (excerpt from Strangely Like War) in Sacred Pathways.

November/December, “Revolution, Sustainability, and Civilization, an interview with Derrick Jensen,” by Lore Axe, in The A Word

Fall/Winter, “Leaving the Comfort Zone,” in In The Balance.

October, Derrick was interviewed by Laurent Brondel for Dooney’s Cafe .

October, “In the belly of the whale?” in The Ecologist.

August/September, “Tricks of the Trade: Alfred McCoy On How The CIA Got Involved in Global Drug Trafficking,” in Sentient Times.

July/August,  “Do we need nature,” in The Ecologist.

Summer, I was interviewed for the ‘zine Jigsaw ( www.alliance4indymedia.org).

May/June,  “Free Trade™” in The Ecologist.

May/June, “Your Country Needs You,” in The Ecologist.

May, “It’s almost impossible to talk about free will without talking about insanity. Most of us are by now, of course, almost completely insane,” in Adbusters.

April, Derrick was interviewed by Michael Toms on New Dimensions.

March/April, “A Natural Connection,” in Hope.

March,  “Hungry Ghosts,” in The Ecologist.

Winter/Spring, “Coming Home,” an excerpt from The Culture of Make Believe, in Disorderly Conduct.

February, “Vivisection: A ‘Moderate’ Proposal,” in The Ecologist.

Winter,  reprint of “Where the Buffalo Go: How Science Ignores the Living World: An Interview with Vine Deloria,” in Green Anarchy. Read it here.

 

2002

November, “Before We Leap: Carolyn Raffensperger on the Revolutionary Idea of Putting Safety First,” in The Sun.

Summer, “Indigenous Soul & the Repair of the World: An Interview with Martin Prechtel,” in Earthlight.

Summer, “Safe Havens: The untouched places, whether in our hearts or the world, hold the keys to our survival,” reprinted in Green Living .

July 8, Derrick was interviewed on Utne Reader’s Website.

Litha 2002, “Hate Civilized: An Interview with Derrick Jensen,” by Tim Ream was in The Earth First! Journal.

June, I was interviewed by Anthony Lappe for gnn.tv.

June, “The Disenchanted Kingdom: George Ritzer on the Disappearance of Authentic American Culture,” in The Sun.

May, excerpt from A Language Older Than Words translated into Dutch and published as “Geetsdrift Voor Beginners” in Ode.

May,  “World Hunger,” edited version of interview with Anuradha Mittal, in “Ecology Action Newsletter”.

May, “Singing to the Dawn: Thomas Berry On Our Broken Connection To The Natural World,” in The Sun.

Spring, Review of the book Kindred Spirits in Orion.

April 25, “A conversation with Derrick Jensen” by Leigh Wilkerson, in Mountain Xpress.

March, “Enemy of the State” in the book Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization.

March, “Thinking Outside the Classroom: An Interview with Zenobia Barlow,” in The Sun.

March/April, excerpt from A Language Older Than Words in Utne Reader.

Spring, excerpt from A Language Older Than Words in Disorderly Conduct.

Fall/Winter 2001-02: “Interview with Maori Elder Bruce Stewart,” with Jeannette Armstrong, in Green Anarchy.

 

2001

December,  “Driven By Desire: George Draffan on Why The Global Economy Won’t Satisfy Us,” in The Sun

Fall,  reprint of “War on Truth: The Secret Battle for the American Mind: An Interview with John Stauber,” read here. Translated into Polish and reprinted in Obywatel (Citizen).

November/December, I was interviewed by Sera Bilezikyan for Clamor.

October,  “Leaving the Comfort Zone,” reprinted in Black-Clad Messenger #19.

October/November,  “Actions Speak Louder Than Words,” reprinted in HopeDance.

October, “The New Slavery: An Interview with Kevin Bales,” in The Sun.

August/September, “The True Purpose of Education,” excerpt from A Language Older Than Words, in Creations.

August, “Neighborhood Bully: Ramsey Clark On American Militarism,” in The Sun.

Summer, reprint of “No Matter Where We Look,” in Black-Clad Messenger: A Journal of Revolutionary Anti-Industrial Anarchism, #18.

Summer,  “Leaving the Comfort Zone” in Hope.

Summer,  reprint of interview with Jan Lundberg in Green Living.

July,  “Truth in Advertising: Breaking the Spell of Consumerism: An Interview with Kalle Lasn,” in The Sun.

Spring,  “No Matter Where We Look,” in Hope.

April/May, excerpt from A Language Older Than Words, in Creations.

April 8,  “Would We Lie to You?” a review of Trust Us, We’re Experts, in the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

April,  “Of Coyotes and Coversations,” an excerpt from A Language Older Than Words, in The Sun.

April,  “Saving the Indigenous Soul: An Interview with Martin Prechtel,” in The Sun.

March and April,  interview with John Stauber reprinted in Noseweek.

March,  “A Weakened World Cannot Forgive Us: An Interview with Kathleen Dean Moore,” in The Sun.

Winter, “Silencing,” an excerpt from A Language Older Than Words in Species Traitor.

Winter, “Actions Speak Louder Than Words” reprinted in Disorderly Conduct.

February, “Road to Ruin: An Interview with Jan Lundberg,” in The Sun.

 

2000

Fall, excerpt from interview of Christian Parenti, in Jubilee House.

December 21, excerpt from A Language Older Than Words in Hummingbird Farm News.

December, “Getting Free: Escaping the Prisons of Our Own Making: An Interview with Bo Lozoff,” in The Sun.

Fall, “Lives,” in Bulletin of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.

November, “Invasion of the Classroom: How Corporations Buy Access to Children: An Interview With Alex Molnar,” in The Sun.

Fall, excerpt from A Language Older Than Words in Perspective.

Fall,  “Walking on Water,” in Hope Magazine.

October, “Crimes of Punishment: An Interview With Christian Parenti,” in The Sun.

September,  “One Nation Under Lockdown: A Review of Lockdown America,” in The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

September, “Free Press For Sale: How Corporations Have Bought The First Amendment: An Interview With Robert McChesney,” in The Sun.

Summer,  reprint of John Stauber interview in Mediareader.

Summer,  edited version of John Stauber interview in The Public Relations Strategist.

July,  “Where the Buffalo Go: An Interview with Vine Deloria,” in The Sun. Read it here.

June,  “Nothing to Lose But Our Illusions: An Interview with David Edwards,” in The Sun.

May 21, “Rape: An Everyday Atrocity,” in the Sunday San Francisco Examiner.

April, “Urban Renewal: The Resurrection Of An Ex-Gang Member: An Interview With Luis Rodriguez,” in The Sun.

Winter/Spring,  edited reprint of review of Totem Salmon in Mattole Restoration Newsletter.

March,  “An Epidemic of Deception: Why We Can’t Trust The Cancer Establishment: An Interview With Samuel Epstein,” in The Sun.

March/April,  reviews of Spirit and Reason, All Our Relations, and Prison Madness in The Bloomsbury Review.

January/February,  review of Totem Salmon in The Bloomsbury Review.

January, “Body Language: A Conversation With Marc Ian Barasch on Ilness and Healing,” in The Sun.

 

1999

December 19,  “Democracy Loses When Celebrity Dominates the News: A Review of Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, in The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

December, “Armed and Dangerous: The Desperation of Rural America: An Interview with Joel Dyer,” in The Sun.

November/December, “Millennial Forests,” in Audubon.

November, “The Broken Promise of Democracy: An Interview with Frances Moore Lappé,” in The Sun.

October. edited reprint of “War on Truth: The Secret Battle for the American Mind: An Interview with John Stauber,” in The Strobe.

September/October, review of Can’t Jail The Spirit in The Bloomsbury Review.

September 12, “The Unabomber-Madman or Revolutionary: A Review of the United States of America Versus Theodore John Kaczynski,” in The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

Summer, reply to “Violence Objectified,” in Food and Water.

August (Volume 13, Number 2),  reprint of “Claims to Virtue” in Transitions.

August,  “Foot Soldier: The Long Walk for Justice and Peace: A Conversation with Satish Kumar,” in The Sun.

Summer. reprint of “War on Truth: The Secret Battle for the American Mind: An Interview with John Stauber,” in Forest Voice.

June/July, reprint of “War on Truth: The Secret Battle for the American Mind: An Interview with John Stauber,” in Sentient Times.

Spring, reprint of “Enemy of the State: An Interview with John Zerzan,” in Santa Monica Review.

June.  “Readers Write: Fathers and Sons,” in The Sun.

April, reprint of “War on Truth: The Secret Battle for the American Mind: An Interview with John Stauber,” in Lumpen.

March/April, reviews of Science Under Siege and World Hunger: Twelve Myths in The Bloomsbury Review.

Spring, review of Understanding Forests in The Workbook.

March, “War on Truth: The Secret Battle for the American Mind: An Interview with John Stauber,” in The Sun.

Fall/Winter, reviews of Appalachian Tragedy and Captialism and the Information Age  in The Workbook.

 

1998

December,  “The Language of Hyperspace: An Interview with Stewart Swerdlow,” in Sentient Times.

November,  reprint of “Telling Stories: How Television Skews Our View of Society and Ourselves: An Interview of George Gerbner,” in Sentient Times.

November,  “Tragedy in the Trees” in Sentient Times.

October,  interview of Cleve Backtster translated into Czech and published in Baraka.

September/October, “Transfixed by the Headlights of the Hurtling Machine,” in The Road-RIPorter.

September, “Enemy of the State: An Interview with John Zerzan,” in The Sun.

August, interview with Cleve Backster, in Free Spirit.

August, “Telling Stories: How Television Skews Our View of Society, and Ourselves: An Interview of George Gerbner,” in The Sun,

Summer, “Actions Speak Louder Than Words,” in Food and Water Journal.

Spring/Summer,  “Environmental Perspective,” in Earth Ethics.

May/June, “Actions Speak Louder Than Words,” in Earth First! Journal.

May,  “Out of the Ashes: Violence and its Aftermath: An interview with Judith Herman,” in The Sun (under the pseudonym Richard Marten).

March/April, reviews of Earth For Sale by Brian Tokar, Eating With Conscience, by Michael W. Fox, and Last Standing Woman, by Winona LaDuke, in The Bloomsbury Review.

 

1997

Summer, “Lessons From Peru” in Earth Island Journal.

July, “The Plants Respond: An Interview with Cleve Backster” in The Sun.

June-July, “Movemiento Revoluci¢nario Tupac Amaru” (in English) in Earth First! Journal.

April 30, “Murder in Peru: After the Lies and Betrayals… ” in Anderson Valley Advertiser.

March,  interview of Jim Nollman in Interspecies Newsletter.

Winter, interview of David Ehrenfeld in Food and Water Journal.

January, interview of Jim Nollman in The Sun.

December, interview of Tom Athanasiou in Z Magazine.

 

1996

October 13, “Hush of the Hives: In the death of his bees, a beekeeper learns the limits of progress,”  in The New York Times Magazine.

July 10,  “Avoiding the Issues,” in The Pacific Northwest Inlander.

May 8, “Asking for the Truth,” in The Pacific Northwest Inlander.

April 17,  “The Other 364 Days,” in The Pacific Northwest Inlander.

 

1995

December, interview of David Ehrenfeld (from Listening to the Land) in The Sun.

October/November. “Visualize Corporate Extinction”  in Wild Forest Review.

October 18,  “Loving the Land” (review of Richard Manning’s Grassland) in The Pacific Northwest Inlander.

October 4, 1995 Death Warrant’ (short) in The Pacific Northwest Inlander.

June, “Claims to Virtue” in Wild Forest Review.

June,  “‘Claims to Virtue’ as Justification,” in Native Voice.

May,  interview of Neil Evernden in The Bloomsbury Review.

April, ‘The Hijacking of Earth Day” in The Pacific Northwest Inlander.

March, “‘Claims to Virtue” (short) in The Pacific Northwest Inlander.

January,iInterview of Thomas Berry in The Bloomsbury Review.

 

1992

October, interview of Richard Manning in The Bloomsbury Review.

January, interview of John Keeble in The Bloomsbury Review.

 

1991

January, book reviews of The Dream Story and Healing Dream and Ritual in The Bloomsbury Review.

July, book review of A Hive of Bees in Gleanings in Bee Culture.

 

1984

December, book review of The T.E. Lawrence Puzzle in The Bloomsbury Review.

May, interview (with Joe Nigg) of Joseph Campbell in The Bloomsbury Review.