On the 25th anniversary of the release of “Top Gun,” Sirota published an article in the Sunday Washington Post looking at how the Pentagon effectively subsidizes pro-war propaganda. The piece draws on Sirota’s book, “Back to Our Future.”

Sirota spoke to Google employees at Google headquarters in Mountain View about his new book Back to Our Future.

USA Today published a front-page profile of Sirota’s new book Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now. The piece included a sidebar written by Sirota and a video about the book.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow hailed Back to Our Future in a prime-time television interview with Sirota. She said the book “rang true to me on just about every single page” and called the book “a real accomplishment.”

Sirota appeared on NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly to discuss his new book Back to Our Future.

The Onion A.V. Club hailed Sirota’s new book in a review by New Yorker magazine book critic Meredith Blake. The review called Back to the Future “engrossing, forceful and impassioned,” and says it is written with an “obsessive style that will likely appeal to sympatico pop-culture fanatics.”

In a review describing Back to Our Futureas “bracing, very funny and thrillingly clever,” the Buffalo News called Sirota’s new book among the best of 2011.