Venezuela and the Left: A Forum
I’ve written an introduction to a forum, up now at Dissent magazine. The left has had a tricky relationship with Venezuela over the last couple of decades. It has often […]
Author Archives: patrickiber
Year One of AMLO’s Mexico
As we did a year ago during his campaign, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I tried to cut through the highly polarized conversation around Andrés Manuel López Obrador to get to […]
“The World The Economist Made,” a review of Alexander Zevin’s Liberalism at Large
I have a review in The New Republic (where I am now a contributing editor), of Alexander Zevin’s Liberalism at Large. In it, I both assess the book and try to engage […]
Cold War Latin America (syllabus for graduate seminar)
History 730 Cold War Latin America Professor Patrick Iber This course will provide a forum for learning and discussing the history of Cold War Latin America. Central themes include […]
The Cultural Cold War in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
An article I’ve written, simply called “The Cultural Cold War,” has been published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. This is an article-length piece that is supposed to give […]
Pioneers of Cultural Relativism, a review of Charles King’s “Gods of the Upper Air”
I’ve written a review of Charles King’s Gods of the Upper Air for The New Republic, examining the ways that the idea of “cultural relativism” has been used and abused in public culture […]
Historia de las exposiciones en México
I gave a talk at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, part of UNAM. It was the closing speech for a conference on the “Historia de las exposiciones en México.” […]
