No Room
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 […]
Category Archives: US and the World
An interview with the poet Carolyn Forché, author of “What You Have Heard is True”
The poet Carolyn Forché’s engagement with El Salvador stretches back to the late 1970s. In the 1980s, she toured extensively in the United States, reciting poetry and raising awareness about […]
Venezuela and the Left: A Forum
I’ve written an introduction to a forum, up now at Dissent magazine. The left has had a tricky relationship with Venezuela over the last couple of decades. It has often […]
Review of Wolfe, “Freedom’s Laboratory”
My review of Audra Wolfe’s “Freedom’s Laboratory,” up now at The New Republic. The book extends out understanding of the Cultural Cold War into the world of science. A sample: The […]
Review of Immerwahr, “How to Hide an Empire”
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 […]
US foreign policy and Venezuela
This is not an easy subject. Anti-imperialism may be a limited framework in this situation, and the Maduro government needs to be subject to pressure to leave. But I think, […]
Five Principles to Guide a Foreign Policy for the Left
The Fellow Travelers blog is hosting a forum in which different thinkers are asked to provide five guiding principles for a potential left foreign policy. The current participants are Rep. […]
Rise and Fall of American Power, Syllabus Fall 2018
History 434 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1898 Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2018 / MWF 11:00-11:50AM For the most of the twentieth century, the United States was the […]
Review of two books on Cuba’s Cold War for The Nation
In The Nation, I have a review of Jonathan Brown’s Cuba’s Revolutionary World and Dirk Kruijt’s Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America. In February 1962, Fidel Castro spoke the words of the Second Declaration […]
Review of Richard Cándida Smith, “Improvised Continent”
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 […]
