Monthly Archive: January, 2016

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...

The following is an interview with John Holmes, author ofnQ: There has been a lot written and said about Darwin this year, but Darwin’s Bards is the only book about Darwin and poetry. It is not an obvious conjunction—what is...

nnIn the following interview Carl Hobbs, author of The Beach Book: Science of the Shore, answers questions such as How many grains of sand are there on the beach? How will climate change affect beaches? Can beaches be “renourished”? and...

In The Ethical Soundscape, Charles Hirschkind explores how a popular Islamic media form—the cassette sermon—has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. nnQuestion: Islamic cassette media have been associated with Muslim fundamentalism and...

Question: “Postmemory” – what is it? The description of your book claims that we can inherit other people’s memories, how so?nnMarianne Hirsch: “Postmemory” describes the relationship that the “generation after” bears to the personal, collective, and cultural trauma of those...