Venezuelans’ Hopes for a Biden Administration
I believe that the people affected by U.S. foreign policy should be listened to about how to shape it. I spoke with five Venezuelan social scientists about the situation in […]
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Interview with Punto y Coma
I’ve done an interview with the Chilean magazine Punto y Coma, about my work and book. You can read it in Spanish at the link. Perhaps the most interesting question […]
History and Theory in Global Perspective
History 703: History and Theory in Global Perspective University of Wisconsin, Madison Professor Patrick Iber The goal of this course is to think through theoretical approaches for understanding and writing history, […]
Fall 2020 syllabus: History 102, U.S. History since 1865
PRELIMINARY SYLLABUS UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER History 102 History of the United States since 1865 Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2020 / MWF 9:55-10:45 Course description and objectives: This […]
Review of Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland
I have a review of Rick Perlstein’s new book Reaganland, the final book in his four-volume history. I look at all of the books, and take on issues in the […]
No Room
I wrote a review of John Bolton’s The Room Where it Happened. It’s a bad book, which is convincing in its condemnation of Trump but also reveals the limitations of […]
After Sanders, what’s next?
In Spanish, for Nueva Sociedad, I wrote about what is next for the U.S. left after Sanders. I mentioned a few aspects of my work for the campaign. (It’s in French […]
An interview with the poet Carolyn Forché, author of “What You Have Heard is True”
The poet Carolyn Forché’s engagement with El Salvador stretches back to the late 1970s. In the 1980s, she toured extensively in the United States, reciting poetry and raising awareness about […]
Podcast conversation on public scholarship
I appeared on the Historias podcast of SECOLAS to talk about research and public scholarship. The interview happened before the CoVID lockdown, and it feels like a million years ago. I was […]
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 […]
