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Category Archives: Reviews

Review of Jonathan Katz, “Gangsters of Capitalism”

January 13, 2022by patrickiber Leave a comment

I have a review in the January/February issue of The New Republic of Jonathan Katz’s biography/travelogue of Smedley Butler, a figure of long fascination to many and totally obscure to […]

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New Republic, Reviews, US and the World, writing

A review of Spencer Ackerman’s “Reign of Terror”

August 17, 2021by patrickiber Leave a comment

I have a new review of Ackerman’s Reign of Terror in the New Republic. Here’s the beginning: On September 5, 2016, two months before the Electoral College victory of Donald […]

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Review in the AHR of two books on history education

January 13, 2021by patrickiber Leave a comment

In the December 2020 issue of the American Historical Review, I have a review of two books on history education (Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson’s The Case for Contention and […]

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Review of Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland

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Update: this review was a finalist for the Washington Monthly’s Kukula Prize for excellence in book reviewing in 2021. I have a review of Rick Perlstein’s new book Reaganland, the […]

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New Republic, Reviews, United States, writing

No Room

June 25, 2020by patrickiber Leave a comment

I wrote a review of John Bolton’s The Room Where it Happened. It’s a bad book, which is convincing in its condemnation of Trump but also reveals the limitations of […]

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“The World The Economist Made,” a review of Alexander Zevin’s Liberalism at Large

December 19, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

I have a review in The New Republic (where I am now a contributing editor), of Alexander Zevin’s Liberalism at Large. In it, I both assess the book and try to engage […]

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Intellectuals, New Republic, Reviews, writing

Pioneers of Cultural Relativism, a review of Charles King’s “Gods of the Upper Air”

August 15, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

I’ve written a review of Charles King’s Gods of the Upper Air for The New Republic, examining the ways that the idea of “cultural relativism” has been used and abused in public culture […]

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The Metamorphosis: A Review of Mario Vargas Llosa in The Nation

April 16, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

A review of Sabers and Utopias, an essay collection by Mario Vargas Llosa, in The Nation. I must say I’m proud of this lede (and the conclusion to the piece […]

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Intellectuals, Latin America, Peru, Reviews, The Nation, writing

Review of Immerwahr, “How to Hide an Empire”

February 12, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

I have reviewed Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire for The New Republic. Good book, surprising controversy, even-more-surprising quantity of guano islands. In February 2003, Al Jazeera broadcast an interview with Donald […]

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Review of Aldo Marchesi, “Latin America’s Radical Left”

July 30, 2018by patrickiber Leave a comment

I have a review of Aldo Marchesi’s Latin America’s Radical Left up at h-net; it’s open access, like all h-net content, so just click over.

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