Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer discusses the diminishing strength of American unions and how recent court decisions have made it difficult for labor groups to organize.

A former teacher returns to the classroom and offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation.

Garret Keizer, a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, contributing writer to Mother Jones, and the author of Privacy, explores privacy rights in the face of technological change, terrorism and inequality.

Garret Keizer takes a look at noise—all the unwanted sounds we’re bombarded by every day, from barking dogs to wailing sirens to thumping music coming from next door. He explores the class issues and political ramifications of noise, from Tanzania to New York, and the environmental sustainability of a quieter world. In The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want, he shows that noise is as much about what we want as about what we’re trying to avoid.

Garret Keizer, freelance writer and contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, discusses his call for an Election Day "general strike" against the Bush Administration in this month's Harper's Magazine.