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Category Archives: Cold War

Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and the Cold War

January 13, 2021by patrickiber Leave a comment

I talked to my friends Aaron Bady and Gerry Canavan for their podcast Grad School Vonnegut about Cat’s Cradle, the 1963 Vonnegut novel. Is it good? Is it cancelled? Are […]

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Cold War

Interview with Punto y Coma

October 16, 2020by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Chile, Cold War

An interview with the poet Carolyn Forché, author of “What You Have Heard is True”

April 9, 2020by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, Dissent, El Salvador, US and the World, writing

Cold War Latin America (syllabus for graduate seminar)

December 19, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, Latin America, syllabi, teaching

The Cultural Cold War in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History

November 4, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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CIA, Cold War, Intellectuals, propaganda, writing

Historia de las exposiciones en México

May 25, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

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.” […]

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Cold War, Latin America, Mexico, propaganda

Review of Wolfe, “Freedom’s Laboratory”

March 26, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

My review of Audra Wolfe’s “Freedom’s Laboratory,” up now at The New Republic. The book extends out understanding of the Cultural Cold War into the world of science. A sample: The […]

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Cold War, Intellectuals, New Republic, US and the World, writing

Review of two books on Cuba’s Cold War for The Nation

February 22, 2018by patrickiber Leave a comment

In The Nation, I have a review of Jonathan Brown’s Cuba’s Revolutionary World and Dirk Kruijt’s Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America. In February 1962, Fidel Castro spoke the words of the Second Declaration […]

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Cold War, Cuba, Latin America, The Nation, US and the World, writing

Review of Arne Westad’s “The Cold War: A World History”

November 6, 2017by patrickiber Leave a comment

In The New Republic, I have a review of Odd Arne Westad’s “The Cold War: A World History.” (Wonderful illustration by Guy Billout.) This is an important book, and it’s a […]

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Cold War, New Republic, Reviews, US and the World

“Social Science, Cultural Imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in the 1960s,” in The Global 1960s

August 2, 2017by patrickiber Leave a comment

I have a chapter in this edited volume, The Global 1960s, on how the Ford Foundation gets trapped by a climate of suspicion it helps create as it tries to move […]

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Argentina, Cold War, Cuba, Intellectuals, Latin America, political economy, US and the World, writing

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