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 […]
Category Archives: press
Aristocracy and accountability
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, I spoke to Lindsay Ellis about memories of encountering the American aristocracy for the first time in college, and how the Kavanaugh hearings are […]
Interviews about Mexican elections
I spoke with Nathaniel Parish Flannery about the upcoming Mexican elections for Forbes and tried out my “if you must compare AMLO to someone, he’s more Jimmy Carter than Hugo […]
“The South is Our North,” in Jacobin
In Jacobin no. 25, dedicated to Latin America and the Pink Tide, I have a short article on the problems and promise of TeleSUR. The promise: The problem that TeleSUR […]
On the death of Gabriel García Márquez
I’m quoted in Joel Whitney’s Al-Jazeera America article on the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and his long friendship with Fidel Castro.
Juan Rulfo, the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, and the Cold War in the press
The apparent oddity of Juan Rulfo having received CIA dollars, revealed in the essay I recently published with S-USIH, has been making the rounds in the Mexican and international press. Here […]
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