Review of Wolfe, “Freedom’s Laboratory”
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 […]
Category Archives: Cold War
Review of two books on Cuba’s Cold War for The Nation
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 […]
Review of Arne Westad’s “The Cold War: A World History”
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 […]
“Social Science, Cultural Imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in the 1960s,” in The Global 1960s
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 […]
Review of “Precarious Paths to Freedom”
I have a review of Aragorn Storm Miller’s Precarious Paths to Freedom in the August issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. In the past several years, historians have been busy […]
The Spy Who Funded Me: Review of Campaigning Culture in the LARB
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, I have a review of Campaigning Culture: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, edited by Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg. IN […]
On the “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks
I’m on podcast #33 of the very informative “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks. We talk about how I got started doing the kind of work that I […]
