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

If you listened to the latest Know Your Enemy episode you will have learned that there is going to be a live Dissent Magazine / KYE / Mike Duncan's Revolutions crossover event on May 14th at 7pm in New. York. City. Tickets are on sale now! dissentmagazine.org/blog/event-m...

If we are still talking about campus protests my two cents are that the Biden administration should have been able to be held to account morally while Trump cannot be held to account for morals which he does not possess

It's explicitly genocidal rhetoric from Trump, who frequently expresses the view that civilizations exist in a hierarchy of value

We all know exactly what Thomas means: was the Agricultural Revolution a mistake? But if you post your answer, you will get the most tedious conversation in your mentions, and therefore you should not post about it

One of the things that is just maddeningly grotesque about the current situations in Cuba and Iran is that Trump imposes mass suffering as a means of ego gratification

Friends: somehow I got to write for Rolling Stone [?!], about Trump's inhumane pressure campaign in Cuba. "Castro’s ego was sustained by rebellion; the David who fought Goliath and won, no matter the cost to others. Trump’s ego demands that he be Goliath, and win, no matter the cost to others."

The ball is a new Snyder thread and the entire timeline is suddenly Aaron Gordon

When I was working at UTEP Texas passed a law that allowed firearms on campuses, and people joked that they were now allowed on universities but not on Fort Bliss, the major military base in town. But enlisted folks assured me that tons of people had weapons on the base

New @dissentmag.bsky.social piece by Farid Masrour on why Trump's actions in Iran are unlikely to be produce "democratization", even if the present regime is unpopular dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

It's my baseline assumption that being able to convince people to misperceive reality is a short-term gain/long-term loss situation for political movements