Over the past few years, I’ve followed Laura Tanenbaum’s work on Jacobin, her own blog The Golden Notebooks, and as a featured player in many memorable political battles on social media. A professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, she took some time to join me for a conversation that covers topics including her youth in Chicago as the child of scientists, her decision to pursue a humanities education, her development as a feminist and radical and, of course, the social and political resonance of 1990s movies like Fight Club.