Intelligence Squared Presents:
The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan: An American Catastrophe
Jon Lee Anderson is considered one of the great foreign correspondents of our time. Since the late 1980s, his on-the-ground reporting in Afghanistan has provided invaluable insight into decades of conflict and political upheaval. For The New Yorker magazine he covered the US-backed Mujahideen’s insurrection in Kabul, was an eyewitness to the new war launched by the US against the Taliban and their Al-Qaeda allies within days of the 9/11 attacks, and reported on the supposed quick and easy victory of America while Osama bin Laden was still in hiding.
On February 10, Anderson joins us in person to reflect on his decades-long career, throughout which he has traced the missteps of the US-led war in Afghanistan, now widely regarded as one of the greatest foreign policy failures of the modern era.
Join us live at the Kiln Theatre and ask your questions in the audience Q&A.
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Ticket Prices
Premium Admission – £32
General Admission – £25
Duration
1 hour and 30 minutes (without an interval)
Dates
10 Feb 2026
Jon Lee Anderson - New Yorker staff writer, war correspondent and author
Jon Lee Anderson, a staff writer, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Since then, he has covered conflicts in numerous places, including Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Angola, Somalia, Sudan, Mali, and Liberia. He has also reported frequently from Latin America, writing about Rio de Janeiro’s gangs, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, an isolated tribe in Peru’s Amazon, and a Caracas slum, among other subjects, and has written Profiles of Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Gabriel García Márquez. His latest book is To Lose A War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban.