THE WORK OF BEN MARGULIES - FREELANCE WRITER AND EDITOR
My Professional Writing Portfolio. Contact me below for writing, editing and proofreading services.
PORTFOLIO OF WORK
Past. Present. Future (pending decision of virulent pathogens)
December 2015
A discussion of how populist radical right parties use liberal ideas and beliefs to achieve racist and exclusionary ends.
April 2017
A discussion of the deep state, its original meanings, and how Trump uses the term
June 2018
A discussion about how a media scandal revealed the US middle classes see "the white working class."
May 2019
A book review of Julia Lovell's compehensive and innovative history of Maoism.
July 2015
A critique of EU policy-making during the Greek debt crisis, where the EU claimed to follow its own rules scrupulously while in reality breaking them under an undeclared state of emergency.
December 2019
A review of Joanne Freeman's entertaining and exhaustively researched history of violence in Congress during the 19th century.
May 2020
A review of Catherine Fieschi's thought-provoking new book on populism, in the LSE Review of Books.
"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."
Dorothy Parker
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