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. […]
UPDATE 07/06/2018: After the election results, Carlos and I returned to Dissent to analyze the results. My friend Carlos Bravo Regidor and I grew frustrated with the international coverage of […]
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 […]
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 […]
On one possible 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, I wrote a review of two books about Communism for the Los Angeles Review of Books and tried to use the […]
I have a chapter in this edited volume, The Global 1960s, on how the Ford Foundation gets trapped by a climate of suspicion it helps create as it tries to move […]
I have a review of Aragorn Storm Miller’s Precarious Paths to Freedom in the August issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. In the past several years, historians have been busy […]
