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Articles by Nick Flores

Book Review: ‘Cigarettes and Soviets’ Examines Social and Political Impact of Cigarettes in Former USSR

Nick Flores January 23, 2023 Nick Flores

Nick Flores reviews historian Tricia Starks’ new book, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR," which he says provides a window into the Soviet project through the lens of its cigarette industry.

Cover of On the Ho Chi Minh Trail (University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Book Review: ‘On the Ho Chi Minh Trail’ Leaves U.S. War Propaganda Intact

Nick Flores January 14, 2022 Nick Flores

Sherry Buchanan’s "On the Ho Chi Minh Trail" criticizes a few isolated events that took place during the U.S. war on Vietnam. This speaks more to the depressing ignorance of so-called progressives in the West than to the experiences of Vietnamese women, writes Nick Flores.

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