Peter McLaren is, as the back cover of his (2005) Capitalists & Conquerors: a critical pedagogy against empire says, "professor of urban education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles". Peter is also now a Distinguished Fellow in Critical Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. He's written a rather large number of books on critical pedagogy by the time you're reading this, and flown around the world numerous times in support of important causes both educational and political. He's also a friend of mine, and this is the transcript of a short online interview we conducted on 24 May 2013. The interview took place several days after Peter was tear-gassed and flattened by Turkish riot police in Ankara.