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 […]
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.” […]
An edited version of this will be in the Journal of Latin American Studies later, but I’m allowed to post pre-print text here. Richard Cándida Smith, Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
