Daily Archive: January 23, 2016

The following is an interview with Jonathan Soffer, author of  Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City.nnQ: What makes a great mayor? Does Koch qualify? nnJonathan Soffer:: A great mayor must be a great citizen, whom other citizens...

nnIn If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic, Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White track the emergence and expansion of logic as a field of study. The following is an interview with Shenefelt and White, who both teach Great...

In Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias, Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew investigate the history and politics of modern asymmetrical warfare. By focusing on four specific hotbeds of instability—Somalia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq—Shultz and Dew conduct a careful analysis...

Jo Anne Schneider is associate research professor at the George Washington Institute for Public Policy and in the Anthropology Department at George Washington University. In this interview, she talks about her new book Social Capital and Welfare Reform. In a...

Character and Environment is the first book-length defense of a virtue-oriented approach to environmental ethics. Ronald Sandler brings together contemporary work on virtue ethics with contemporary work on environmental ethics.nnQuestion: What does it mean for an environmental ethic to be...

The following is an interview with Jack Sanders and Katie Terezakis, coeditors of the new edition of György Lukács’s, Soul and Form.nnQ: Why publish a new edition of Lukács’s early essays now?nnJack Sanders and Katie Terezakis: Lukács first published the...