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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

Review of Wolfe, “Freedom’s Laboratory”

March 26, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, Intellectuals, New Republic, US and the World, writing

Review of Immerwahr, “How to Hide an Empire”

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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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New Republic, Reviews, US and the World, writing

US foreign policy and Venezuela

January 31, 2019by patrickiber Leave a comment

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, […]

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Latin America, US and the World, Venezuela, writing

After the Pink Tide

January 9, 2019by patrickiber 1 Comment

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 […]

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Dissent, Latin America, writing

El populismo de minorías de Donald Trump

November 13, 2018by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Nueva Sociedad, United States, writing

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