Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is a writer, documentarian, and co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors. She is the author of numerous books including The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, Democracy May Not Exist but We’ll Miss It When It Is Gone, and The People’s Platform (winner of an American Book Award) and the director of What Is Democracy?, Examined Life, and other films. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, n+I, The Baffler, and elsewhere, and she is an advisor to Lux Magazine and on the editorial board of Hammer & Hope. A former touring member of the band Neutral Milk Hotel, she was the 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer.