Patrick Iber

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships

Apropos of absolutely nothing, it seems like a fine day to learn a bit about a big-city Socialist mayor. Daniel Hoan of Milwaukee was re-elected many times, with many exemplary successes and some challenges, none of which bear any resemblance whatsoever to the present day

Lot of people with more information than I have seem to think we will all be dead within ten years

This MetaFilter forum _from September 11, 2001_ is a primary document that makes it very difficult to make the "unity" argument www.metafilter.com/10034/Plane-...

I'm fielding requests from prospective Ph.D. students, and maybe you are too. Over the summer, I wrote this guide for students in History: including 1) don't do it; 2) if you must do it, this is how the process works and how to prepare your application patrickiber.org/2026/06/24/a...

New Kafka just dropped

Dissent's fall issue is out today and it is just wall-to-wall bangers. The special section on tech and the left begins with this killer essay by @simontorracinta.bsky.social and the lose-lose situation we face in the US economy dissentmagazine.org/article/arti...

I really loved this book, it’s marketed as a queer book and sure it is that, but straight folks shouldn’t miss out by thinking it’s not for them. It’s a great work of literature

Friends I’m happy to announce that I’m starting a podcast like it’s 2008

can't believe the Emily Wilson discourse didn't produce a piece called Xenia Warrior Princess

You try to talk to one tankie and you get swarmed by a mob calling you a social fascist and extolling the virtues of the glorious USSR, which actually illustrates quite well the problem of why so many people decided they couldn't work in coalitions with them

Today you're going to see a lot of tributes and assessments of Gloria Steinem (I thought this one very good: www.thecut.com/article/glor...). You'll also see some people raising her involvement with the CIA, and others ignore it. (That obit doesn't even mentioned it.) What was that about?