Nina Power

Nina Power (born 1978) is an English writer and philosopher, author of three books.

Biography Born in 1978, Power lived as a child in rural Wiltshire.

Power attended the University of Warwick, where she received a BA and MA in philosophy, and completed her doctorate in philosophy at Middlesex University.

With Alberto Toscano, Power is both editor and translator of Alain Badiou's 2003 book On Beckett.

Her book One Dimensional Woman was published in 2009. Academic Elena Marchevska said that the book "questioned ... the purpose and economics of feminism today." The Guardian'''s reviewer said "[Power] casts her critical eye across an impressive range of subjects, from Sarah Palin to pornography, war and how society structures both home and work. ... I salute this book: because it makes you think." Power argued that in a contemporary environment in which "the blurring of work, social, personal and physical life is almost total," feminism must "recognize the new ways in which life and existence are colonized by new forms of domination that go far beyond objectification as it used to be understood."

In 2019, Power and writer Daniel Miller sued artist Luke Turner for defamation over a series of tweets by Turner. Power and Miller argued the tweets suggested they were both antisemitic. Almost £30,000 was raised through a crowdfunder to support Power and Miller's legal action, titled "Targeted, harassed and falsely labelled a fascist". Turner countersued for harassment. The judge dismissed the claims of both parties in November 2023. In 2020 Power wrote an essay for an exhibition 'People of Colour' at Mercy Pictures, a small artist-run gallery in New Zealand, and was drawn into a controversy over the display of Māori flags being hung alongside symbols of white supremacy like the Nazi flag.

Power published What Do Men Want? in 2021. In The Times, Louise Perry called the book "bracingly original" with a "refreshingly sympathetic view of men and masculinity." Writing in The Guardian, Houman Barekat said that "Power’s ostensibly reasonable call for compassion feels at best platitudinous, at worst disingenuous or even reactionary" when "set against her caricaturing of bien-pensant liberalism." She previously regularly contributed to The Wire and The Guardian.

Power was a senior editor of and columnist for the online magazine Compact until her resignation in July 2024.

Since 2021, Power co-hosts the podcast The Lack with political theorist Benjamin Studebaker and filmmaker Helen Rollins.

Political views In May 2023, Power spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in London on the topic "After the Individual." Writer Dan Hitchens reported that she "bluntly urged their audience to just go to church."

Some of her works have argued for a "return to old values and virtues", especially as a response to a claimed masculinity crisis. In 2024, she published an article in Compact criticizing gender-affirming care and dismissing it as a "fad." Her views have been described as transphobic and aligned with the gender critical movement.

In October 2025, Power wrote an essay for the right-wing American magazine, The Frontier, where she worried about the demographic decline of white English people, stating that, "A British person born in 1961 London has, in the intervening decades, overseen his city transform from one that was 95 percent populated by men and women like him to a mere 39 percent," and which praised Operation Raise the Colours as being conducted by "patriots".

Books

Film appearances Marx Reloaded'', ZDF/Arte, April 2011.