Patrick Iber

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Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.

Augusto Pinochet’s perceived enemies were drugged, hooded, and tossed into the sea by helicopter. Some of Trump’s fans—including a GOP congressman—find that worthy of praise, or at least humor.

The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?

“The Room Where It Happened” is a powerful indictment of Trump—and of its author.

How a 170-year-old magazine has struggled to uphold liberal capitalism

How a group of anthropologists set out to study other societies and reflected on their own.

The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.

How the United States reinvented empire

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

Rethinking the legacy of writers who worked with the CIA.

To understand global inequality, you have to understand Brazil's inequality.

Adam Hochschild's book is a post-Cold War history of the Spanish Civil War.

Liberal hawks and neocons' Congress for Cultural Freedom delusion