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WRITERS AT WORK
On Eric Schlosser
On Joan Didion
On Wendell Berry's Essays
On Wendell Berry's Fiction
On Rebecca Solnit
On Eduardo Galeano
On Barbara Ehrenreich
On Robin D. G. Kelley
On Jon Krakauer
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BOOK REVIEWS ARCHIVE
The Robber Barons of Social Change
By Mark Engler and Arthur Phillips
Published on February 25, 2010 on Toward Freedom.
Should advocates of progressive transformation adopt market values and business know-how? (A review of Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World by Michael Edwards.)
A Utopia of Caring
By Mark Engler
Published in the November 2009 issue of The Progressive magazine.
Rebecca Solnit explores how our responses to disasters can point the way to a better society. (A review of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.)
The Godfather of Microcredit
By Mark Engler
Published in the Fall 2009 issue of Dissent magazine.
Is Muhammad Yunus selling ''free market'' neoliberalism in the guise of liberal do-gooderism?
The Ascent of Niall Ferguson
By Mark Engler
Published in the Spring 2009 issue of Dissent Magazine
In his new "financial history of the world" a historian famous for celebrating empire turns to praise the wonders of capital.
Contagious Defections
By Mark Engler
Published on December 15, 2008
How far will mainstream economics go in breaking with the increasingly discredited Washington Consensus?
Spreading the Wealth
By Mark Engler
Published in the December 15, 2008 issue of The Nation
A review of Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance And Why We Should Take It Back.
When the Betting Goes Bad
By Mark Engler
Published on September 24, 2008
A review of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips (Viking, 2008).
The World is Not Flat
By Mark Engler
Published in the May/June 2008 issue of Dollars & Sense
How Thomas Friedman gets it wrong about globalization. An excerpt from How to rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008).
Capitalism as Catastrophe
By Mark Engler
Published in the Spring 2008 issue of Dissent Magazine
A review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Globalization's Mad Scientist
By Mark Engler
Published in the Summer 2007 issue of Dissent Magazine
Joseph Stiglitz's lack of political savvy has produced both a withering critique of IMF-led corporate globalization and a failed vision for how to move beyond it.
America's Own Worst Enemy
By Mark Engler
Published in the March 6, 2007 of in In These Times
A Review of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson.
A History of Nonviolence
By Mark Engler
Published on September 13, 2006
The author of "Cod" suggests that the world's most dangerous idea could have derailed the American Revolution, the Civil War and possibly even World War II.
Introduction to "The Republicans"
By Mark Engler
Published on June 16, 2006
A book of photographs by Steve Simon.
The Latin American Roots of Empire
By Mark Engler
Published on May 8, 2006
A review of Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin.
Hook, Line, and Suckers
By Mark Engler
Published on October 1, 2005
Barbara Ehrenreich moves up the class ladder.
When Lost Is Found
By Mark Engler
Published on July 21, 2005
A review of A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.
Failures of an Economic Hit Man
By Mark Engler
Published on April 18, 2005
A review of the best-selling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
No Better Place
By Mark Engler
Published on February 28, 2005
The fiction of Wendell Berry.
Reporting from Labor's Borderlands
By Mark Engler
Published in the Winter 2004 issue of LiP Magazine
A review of The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
Why Wendell Matters
By Mark Engler
Published on August 5, 2004
Seventy years old this week, the veteran sage of sustainable agriculture has made a life of stewardship, "staying home"--and turning off the computer.
Revenge of the Combat Cartoonist
By Mark Engler
Published on July 26, 2004
A review of How to Succeed at Globalization by El Fisgón.
Memoirs from the "Architect of Black Power"
By Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Published in the March 2004 issue of Z Magazine
A review of Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).
Schlosser's Agenda
By Mark Engler
Published on December 11, 2003
A review of Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser.
In God's Country
By Mark Engler
Published on August 19, 2003 in In These Times
A review of Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
Love, Freedom, Empire
By Mark Engler
Published in Z Magazine, July/August 2003
A Review of Freedom Dreams by Robin D. G. Kelley
The Sideshow Rebels
by Mark Engler
Published on September 5, 2002
A review of Sideshow, USA and Jay's Journal of Anomalies
Whither a New Internationalism?
by Mark Engler
Published in New Politics, Summer 2002
A review of Upside Down by Eduardo Galeano
Ordinary Outrages
by Mark Engler
Published on April 24, 2002
A review of Political Fictions by Joan Didion.
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