September 30, 2024

Santiago Zabala on The Greatest Emergency

An Exhibition Based on Why Only Art Can Save Us

Seven years after the publication of Santiago Zabala’s Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency, the prestigious cultural institution Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid will host an exhibition based on Zabala’s aesthetic theory. The...

September 23, 2024

Election Talking Points vs. Immigration Realities

Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione

In Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions, Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione present evidence about the causes and effects of international migration. Each chapter debunks a frequently encountered claim and answers common questions from fresh perspectives with data and analyses from...

September 11, 2024

David T. Buckley on Blessing America First

In the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump’s presidential legacy continues to shape U.S. foreign policy. David T. Buckley argues that the Trump administration’s populist approach transformed religion from a tool of statecraft into a strategy of...

September 5, 2024

Sonia Sulaiman on Thyme Travellers

Sonia Sulaiman is the editor of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. She primarily writes short stories and fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore and history. Her work has appeared in several genre magazines such as Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH,...

August 6, 2024

Kevin Hart on Contemplation

Contemplation has fallen out of sight in recent decades. For centuries, it was a large part of Christianity, especially Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but since Vatican II (1962–1965) it has not been emphasized. How many times have you heard a homily...

July 17, 2024

Michiko Suzuki on Decentering the Western Humanitarian Movement:

Japanese Indigenous Humanitarianism (Jindō)

In this Q&A, Michiko Suzuki’s discusses Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire. The book is the first English written research monograph about the history of the Japanese Red Cross movement.

May 23, 2024

Rumi Yasutake on The Feminist Pacific

Rumi Yasutake discusses The Feminist Pacific and the emergence of pan-Pacific feminism through the interactions of diverse women’s movements in Hawai‘i.

May 15, 2024

Natalie Foley in Conversation with Robyn Massey on The Experimentation Field Book

Organizations place great value on innovation. Yet to achieve innovation—whether via new products, services, or strategies—experimentation is key. Indeed, experimentation is the link between generating new ideas and putting them into practice. On the face of it, this sounds straightforward....

May 8, 2024

Benjamin C. Alamar on the second edition of Sports Analytics

Data and analytics have the potential to provide sports organizations with competitive advantages both on and off the field. But how are organizations incorporating analytics into their decision-making process? What challenges do they encounter in the use of analytics, and...

May 1, 2024

Howard Friedman and Akshay Swaminathan on Winning with Data Science

Data science is becoming increasingly prevalent across a variety of industries, yet many businesses lack the tools or understanding to succeed in this evolving landscape. Howard Steven Friedman and Akshay Swaminathan address this situation in Winning with Data Science: A...

April 24, 2024

Virginia Hanusik on Into the Quiet and the Light

Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana offers a glimpse into the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry....

April 17, 2024

Jean Yen-chun Lin on A Spark in the Smokestacks

When author Jean Lin initially approached first-time homeowners of newly built gated communities in Beijing regarding their protests against overflowing landfills and waste incinerator construction plans, she believed that her research should focus on mobilization strategies in an authoritarian context....