Nick Lehr interviews David Bromwich about his new book, which is unsparing in his assessment of Obama’s legacy.
Category: Books
My Brush with the FBI
Thomas Haines, in this excerpt from his new book, recalls how advice from a civil liberties lawyer saved him from entrapment during the Cold War.
Brexit & the Madness of the ‘Sovereign Individual’
THE ANGRY ARAB: Maxime Rodinson & the Palestinian Question
A new book attacking the French scholar for his views on Israel and Zionism spurs As`ad AbuKhalil to provide his own assessment.
A Poet and What She Saw in El Salvador
The Euro-Atlantic Populist Wave
Andrew Spannaus analyzes the anti-establishment revolt across the West in this excerpt from his new book, “Original Sins. Globalization, Populism, and the Six Contradictions Facing the European Union.”
Russia-gate as Count Dracula
Ann Garrison reviews Stephen F. Cohen’s book, “War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate.”
The Tale of a ‘Deep State Target’
Daniel Lazare reviews George Papadopoulos’s book about his misadventures with a nest of intelligence agents.
Eric Hobsbawm, the Joy of History and All That Jazz
The writer’s global appeal will remain something for the history books, writes Pepe Escobar.