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  • The Latin American Roots of Empire

    by Mark Engler May 8, 2006
    by Mark Engler May 8, 2006

    A review of Empire’s Workshop by Greg Grandin.

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  • America’s Own Worst Enemy

    by Mark Engler March 6, 2007
    by Mark Engler March 6, 2007

    A Review of “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic” by Chalmers Johnson.

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  • A History of Nonviolence

    by Mark Engler September 13, 2006
    by Mark Engler 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.

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  • Failures of an Economic Hit Man

    by Mark Engler April 18, 2005
    by Mark Engler April 18, 2005

    A review of the best-selling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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  • Memoirs from the “Architect of Black Power”

    by Mark Engler March 14, 2004
    by Mark Engler March 14, 2004

    A review of Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).

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  • Contagious Defections

    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008
    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008

    How far will mainstream economics go in breaking with the increasingly discredited Washington Consensus?

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  • The Robber Barons of Social Change

    by Mark Engler and Arthur Phillips February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler and Arthur Phillips February 25, 2010

    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.)

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  • A Utopia of Caring

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2009
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2009

    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 …

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  • Spreading the Wealth

    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008
    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008

    A review of Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance And Why We Should Take It Back

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  • When the Betting Goes Bad

    by Mark Engler September 24, 2008
    by Mark Engler September 24, 2008

    A review of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips (Viking, 2008).

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The Author

Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Nation Books). Mark’s full bio is available here.

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Mark’s Articles Appear In:

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  • The New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
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  • Rolling Stone
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  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
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  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002