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 […]
Category Archives: propaganda
Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America has won the 2017 Luciano Tomassini Prize
My book, Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, was released on September 14, 2015 by Harvard University Press. It ships (Amazon, Powell’s). It can be purchased […]
CIA-sponsored Literary Magazines for Socialists, Ranked
A most unexpected listicle, up now at The Awl. Half-parody of scholarly outreach in the Buzzfeed era, half-serious attempt to get out some interesting information. #3 will leave you breathless?
Book review of Niño and Montero, Guerra Fría y propaganda
A book review that appeared in the journal Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe. Antonio Niño and José Antonio Montero, eds., Guerra Fría y propaganda: Estados Unidos y su cruzada […]
Review of Deborah Cohn’s "The Latin American Literary Boom"
A review I wrote of Deborah Cohn’s The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War that will appear in the journal The Latin Americanist. If the […]
Managing Mexico’s Cold War: Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Uses of Political Intelligence
I have a short article in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research as part of a special dossier on the use of Mexican secret police archives for writing […]
Manufacturing the Manufacturing of Consent
In 2012, I published a large review essay in the journal Istor of several books on the subject of war and public opinion (link here, everything is available for free in […]
