One of the people that we (D&S collective member and blogger Larry Peterson and I) got to hang out with while we were in New York for this year's Left Forum was Mark Engler (author of this review that we published online a couple of months ago).
Mark has a great skewering of Niall Ferguson in the Spring issue of Dissent (it looks like that article is not (yet?) online; and there was a nice review of Mark's book
in the Winter issue of Dissent. (Our table at the Left Forum book exhibit was next to Dissent's, and we enjoyed chatting with Maxine, Neil, and David.)
Mark has an interesting new piece on U.S. imperialism, recently posted to the website of Foreign Policy in Focus, where Mark is a senior analyst.
Empire Foreclosed?
Read the rest of the article.
--cs