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November 14, 2013

Mike Chasar on Remembrance Day and the Case of the $400,000,000 Poem

The following post written for Veteran’s Day or Remembrance Day is by Mike Chasar, author of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America. The post was originally published on Arcade. I like to think of John McCrae’s “In...

November 13, 2013

The Nuclear Nightmares Still Lurking in Our World

October 18, 2013

Lynne Huffer's Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg on her Advice to Working Women

In an essay for Al Jazeera , Lynne Huffer, author of Are the Lips a Grave writes an open letter to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook corporation. Huffer considers the suggestions to rise up the corporate ladder from Sandberg’s new...

October 17, 2013

Huffer: The New Normal Not Good Enough

This week our featured book is Are the Lips a Grave? by Lynne Huffer. This whole week, we will share interesting articles related to the book and its author, Lynne Huffer. In a piece for the Huffington Post, Huffer writes...

October 16, 2013

Lynne Huffer: Bigotry Didn't Die with DOMA, Neither Should Radical Queer Politics

This week our featured book is Are the Lips a Grave? by Lynne Huffer. This week, we will share articles related to the book and its author, Lynne Huffer. In a July 2013 Huffington Post article, Huffer discusses her reservations...

October 16, 2013

Laura Sjoberg — What’s Wrong with FETs? Thoughts from Gendering Global Conflict

The following is a post by Laura Sjoberg, author of Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War. “The deployment of Female Engagement Teams seems ridiculous to me as a feminist scholar—women are not to be essentialized or instrumentalized;...

October 3, 2013

Kevin Bennett on How Design Thinking Leads to Better Planning

In an August 2013 Forbes article Kevin Bennett, co-author with Jeanne Liedtka and Andrew King of of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: 10 Stories of What Works,” explains how design thinking can create a better understanding of today to get...

October 2, 2013

Jeanne Liedtka on the "Moses Myth" of Innovation

Today we continue our week-long feature of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett and published by Columbia Business School Publishing. (And don’t forget to enter our book giveaway...

September 25, 2013

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 2 — Laura Frost

This is second part of Laura Frost’s essay “Of Modernism and Muscle Cars” (you can read part 1 here). Laura Frost is the author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents “Modern literature should be commemorated in all...

September 24, 2013

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 1 — A Post by Laura Frost

Laura Frost is the author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, our featured book of the week: “Modernism constantly puts up … resistance and, even more audaciously, it asks its viewers to value, savor, and learn to...

September 20, 2013

Rossano: Fear of Death, Joy of Life and the Origins of God

This week our featured book is Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution, by Matt J. Rossano. (And don’t forget to enter our book giveaway for a chance to win a FREE copy...

September 18, 2013

Matt J. Rossano: The Ritual Species