Ian Buruma

Podcast Guest

Ian Buruma is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College and former editor of the New York Review of Books. His work largely focuses on the culture of Japan and China, but he has written extensively on European affairs, film, and many other subjects.

Buruma is the author of many books including A Tokyo Romance, The Churchill Complex, The Wages of Guilt, and Year Zero: A History of 1945. Buruma’s journalism can be found in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harpers, The Guardian, the TLS, NRC Handelsblad, as well as other publications all over the world.