Daily Archive: January 21, 2016

Geoffrey Kabat is the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.nnQuestion: How do these scares get started? nnGeoffrey Kabat: Health scares of the kind I examine can arise in different ways.  In...

The following is an interview with Donna V. Jones, the author of The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and ModernitynnQ: The title of the book is The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity. What does...

n n n n nnMargaretta Jolly discusses her new work, In Love and Struggle, what letters reveal about the history of feminist movements, and whether letter-writing is dead.nnQuestion: What is so special about women’s letters in recent years?nnMargaretta Jolly: Women...

In The Fall of the House of Roosevelt:: Brokers of Ideas from FDR to LBJ, Michael Janeway examines the history of a special group of Rooseveltians, including Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James...

In Every War Must End, Fred Iklé explores the difficult and often painful process through which wars in the modern age have been brought to a close and what this process means for the future. Iklé considers a variety of...

In Annihilation from Within, Defense expert Fred Iklé, who helped create important safeguards against accidental nuclear launches and developed an influential strategy for ending wars, offers an eloquent and impassioned book on the new challenges confronting the security of the...

The following is an interview with R. Glenn Hubbard about his new book The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty.nnQ: What is the Aid Trap?nnR. Glenn Hubbard:  The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The vast majority...