David Rieff

David Rieff is the author of At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention and, most recently, The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice and Money in the Twenty-First Century. His new book, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, will be published in May. (April 2016)

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Another Dose of Peronism for Argentina

Even if Alberto Fernández defies the expectations of both his neoliberal critics and the radical social movement activists, and turns out to be a much better president than Mauricio Macri, it is difficult to see him extracting either the economy or the polity from the morass in which Argentina finds itself.

December 9, 2019