Daily Archive: January 21, 2016

In The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity, Raymond Martin and John Barresi trace the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. In...

To read more about Kimberly Zisk Marten’s Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial PastnnQuestion: You argue that United Nations peacekeeping operations have fundamentally changed in the last ten years. Explain.nnKimberly Zisk Marten: It used to be that UN peacekeeping...

To read more about Kimberly Zisk Marten’s Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial PastnnQuestion: You argue that United Nations peacekeeping operations have fundamentally changed in the last ten years. Explain.nnKimberly Zisk Marten: It used to be that UN peacekeeping...

The following is an interview with Michael E. Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.nnQuestion: What is the Hockey Stick?nnMichael E. Mann: The “Hockey Stick” is a graph that my colleagues and...

Victor Mair’s new translation of The Art of War offers a bold new rendition of a classic work of strategy and Ancient Chinese thought. In this interview, Mair discusses the enduring appeal of the work and what distinguishes his translation:nnQ:...

The following is an interview with Jonathan H. Mack, Psy.D. In The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper, Mack identifies and analyzes the underlying clinical psychological and behavioral processes that led to Malvo’s dissociation and turn toward serial...

nnThe following is an interview with Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, authors of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. In the interview, Loxton and Prothero consider, among other things, the phenomenon of cryptozoology and...