Patrick Iber

The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.

A left that is ambivalent about liberalism can still seek to engage it.

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

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.

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.