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 […]
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, […]
The special section in the Winter 2019 edition of Dissent magazine is derived substantially from the work we did at the conference held last October on the Future of the Left in […]
As part of efforts to contribute to intellectual and political internationalism, I am trying to write about U.S. politics for Nueva Sociedad on a regular basis. At the link, in Spanish, is […]
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. […]
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.
In the Chronicle Review, I tried to work through my frequently conflicted feelings about teaching, politics, history, and ideology, especially in this moment of intense polarization. We work and live in a […]
For Nueva Sociedad, I wrote about the victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Since it was for an international audience, I tried to place her in the context of broader social movements […]
In the wake of AMLO’s sweeping victory in Mexico’s elections, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I have returned to Dissent to analyze the results. It was a strikingly thorough victory, he […]
I have a review/essay of Quinn Slobodian’s excellent book Globalists in The New Republic. This was both a challenge and a pleasure to write, and I’m proud of how it turned out. […]
