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

The UN Fire Brigade: How Good?

The Fog of Peace: A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the Twenty-First Century

by Jean-Marie Guéhenno

April 7, 2016 issue

An American Passion for Tyrants

William Easterly’s case against international development

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

by William Easterly

June 19, 2014 issue

Rwanda: The Big Risk

October 31, 1996 issue