Alyssa Battistoni on capitalism and the politics of nature, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel

Alyssa Battistoni is a professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton UP 2025) and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019). She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in modern social and political theory. 

Benjamin Kunkel is the bestselling author of Indecisionand Utopia or Bust, and a co-founder of n+1. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.