Book Talk | Hannah Gurman | The Opportunists: The Post-Liberals and the Reinvention of Reactionary Politics

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group for an event with Hannah Gurman on October 8 at 5:30 PM. She will discuss her new book The Opportunists: The Post-Liberals and the Reinvention of Reactionary Politics with Matthew Sitman.

Hannah Gurman teaches U.S. History and American Studies at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her new book, The Opportunists, traces the rise of the post-liberal movement and the reinvention of reactionary politics in the twenty-first century (The New Press, September 2026). She is also the author of The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2012); editor of Hearts and Minds: A People’s History of Counterinsurgency (The New Press, 2013) and co-editor (with Kaeten Mistry) of Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (Columbia University Press, 2020). Her writing has also appeared in popular outlets, including The Nation, Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, and The Baffler.

Matthew Sitman is a writer living in New York. He is the co-host of Know Your Enemy and a member of Dissent’s editorial board.