Flak Magazine:

Flak is an online media and culture magazine that reaches over 250,000 readers a month. I edit Flak's Opinion section, which provides original commentary on current issues.

A list of my articles for Flak is available here.

Book reviews:

Ark of the Liberties: America and the World, by Ted Widmer, in San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 2008, E-2.

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, by Steven Greenhouse, in San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2008, E-2.

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, by David Rothkopf, in San Francisco Chronicle, March 30, 2008, M-1.

God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre, by Richard Grant, in San Francisco Chronicle, March 18, 2008, E-2.

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul, by Michael Reid, in San Francisco Chronicle, December 17, 2007, B-2.

Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, by Richard Rhodes, in San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 2007, M-1.

Hugo Chávez: The Definitive Biography of Venezuela's Controversial President, by Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka, in San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2007, M-2.

The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us, by Robyn Meredith, in San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2007, M-1.

The Last Days of the Incas, by Kim MacQuarrie, in San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 2007, M-2. (See also: author's Letter to the Editor)

Havana: Autobiography of a City, by Alfredo Estrada, in San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 2007, E-5.

Inventing Human Rights: A History, by Lynn Hunt, in San Francisco Chronicle, March 9, 2007, E-8.

Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War, by Stanley Meisler, in San Francisco Chronicle, December 27, 2006, E-3.

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, by Niall Ferguson, in San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2006, G-3.

Making Globalization Work, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, in San Francisco Chronicle, September 25, 2006, G-2.

Simón Bolívar: A Life, by John Lynch, in San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 2006, M-1.

Empire's Workshop: Latin America and the Roots of US Imperialism, by Greg Grandin, in San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 2006, M-6.

The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences, by Louis Uchitelle, in San Francisco Chronicle, April 2, 2006, M-3.

Radical Space: Building the House of the People, by Margaret Kohn, in Foundations of Political Theory, posted February 2005.