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On the attack at the Capitol

January 13, 2021by patrickiber Leave a comment

I’m continuing to write in Spanish for Nueva Sociedad on U.S. politics. Here is an interpretation of the attack on the Capitol building. In short: don’t say “this is not […]

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Essays, Nueva Sociedad, United States, writing

History in an Age of Fake News

July 23, 2018by patrickiber Leave a comment

In the Chronicle Review, I tried to work through my frequently conflicted feelings about teaching, politics, history, and ideology, especially in this moment of intense polarization. We work and live in a […]

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Chronicle Review, Essays, teaching, writing

A New Hope for Mexico?: A close look at Mexico’s 2018 elections and the candidacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador

March 9, 2018by patrickiber Leave a comment

UPDATE 07/06/2018: After the election results, Carlos and I returned to Dissent to analyze the results. My friend Carlos Bravo Regidor and I grew frustrated with the international coverage of […]

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Dissent, Essays, Mexico, writing

The Spy Who Funded Me: Review of Campaigning Culture in the LARB

June 12, 2017by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, Essays, Intellectuals, LARB, propaganda, writing

Socialism’s Return, in The Nation

February 21, 2017by patrickiber Leave a comment

In my debut in The Nation‘s Books & the Arts section, I have an essay based on a reading of Bernie Sanders’s two campaign books and two volumes of essays by the left-wing […]

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Essays, Intellectuals, political economy, The Nation, United States, writing

Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Without Illusions

December 3, 2016by patrickiber Leave a comment

I have a somewhat late-breaking obituary of Fidel Castro, up now at Dissent magazine. Rather than a straight obit, I’ve tried to take stock of the different responses to Fidel on […]

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Cold War, Cuba, Dissent, Essays, writing

A Defense of Academic Twitter

October 19, 2016by patrickiber Leave a comment

At Inside Higher Ed, I have a how-to guide to academic Twitter with a prologue on academic precarity and public engagement. “Precarity helped create the new public scholar,” I argue: […]

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Essays, higher ed, Inside Higher Ed, writing

The Two Lefts of Jorge Castañeda

January 7, 2016by patrickiber Leave a comment

Update 5/3/2016: this essay has been published in Spanish by Nexos. I’m honored to be making my debut in Dissent, a magazine I greatly admire. To my mind, Irving Howe navigated […]

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Dissent, Essays, Intellectuals, Latin America, Mexico, writing

Arguing against Evil: Liberal hawks and Neocons’ Congress for Cultural Freedom delusion

August 4, 2015by patrickiber Leave a comment

Up now, at The New Republic: President Barack Obama’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran has prompted concerns from conservatives who say its government can’t be trusted to adhere to the […]

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

How to Treat Adjuncts with Respect

October 25, 2014by patrickiber Leave a comment

My latest on issues in higher education is up, on the subject of how to treat contingent faculty with respect. It used to be the case that non-tenure-track faculty were […]

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Essays, higher ed, Inside Higher Ed, writing

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