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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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New Republic, Reviews, United States, US and the World, writing

After Sanders, what’s next?

May 14, 2020by patrickiber Leave a comment

In Spanish, for Nueva Sociedad, I wrote about what is next for the U.S. left after Sanders. I mentioned a few aspects of my work for the campaign. (It’s in French […]

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Nueva Sociedad, United States, writing

An interview with the poet Carolyn Forché, author of “What You Have Heard is True”

April 9, 2020by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, Dissent, El Salvador, US and the World, writing

Venezuela and the Left: A Forum

February 8, 2020by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Dissent, Latin America, US and the World, writing

Year One of AMLO’s Mexico

January 6, 2020by patrickiber Leave a comment

As we did a year ago during his campaign, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I tried to cut through the highly polarized conversation around Andrés Manuel López Obrador to get to […]

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Dissent, Mexico, writing

“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

The Cultural Cold War in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History

November 4, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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CIA, Cold War, Intellectuals, propaganda, 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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Intellectuals, New Republic, Reviews, writing

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

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