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February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day — Roy Brand on Love and Knowledge

Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of the occasion, we are reposting an essay from Professor Roy Brand, author of LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida, in which Brand discusses the relationship between love and knowledge. What is...

February 12, 2014

Michael Yogg — Investment Profession Should Learn from Industry Pioneer who Spoke Out

“The investment profession must do a better job of policing its own or face the loss of public trust and ever more draconian regulation.”—Michael Yogg The following post is by Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life...

February 7, 2014

Beyond News and Ezra Klein's New Venture

The following post is by Mitchell Stephens, author of the forthcoming Beyond News: The Future of Journalism: “The century-and-a-half-long period in human history when it was possible to make a big business out of selling news … was an anomaly,...

February 6, 2014

Hans van de Ven on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

The following post is by Hans van de Ven, author of Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China: “The Chinese Maritime Customs Service helped keep China together at key critical moments...

January 31, 2014

Happiness and Its Discontents, Part III

This week our featured book is The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living by Mari Ruti. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

January 30, 2014

Happiness and Its Discontents, Part II

This week our featured book is The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living by Mari Ruti. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

January 29, 2014

Happiness and Its Discontents, Part I

This week our featured book is The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living by Mari Ruti. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

January 22, 2014

Michael Mann on the Responsibility of Climate Scientists

In a recent New York Times op-ed, Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (now available in paperback), argues that scientists can no longer stay on the sidelines when it comes...

December 18, 2013

Katerina Kolozova on the Real in Contemporary Philosophy

With Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy, by Katerina Kolozova, now available, we are reposting her essay on the idea of the real in contemporary philosophy: What Baudrillard called the perfect crime has become the malaise of the...

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...

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Category: Author-Editor Post/Op-Ed

Happy Valentine's Day — Roy Brand on Love and Knowledge

Michael Yogg — Investment Profession Should Learn from Industry Pioneer who Spoke Out

Beyond News and Ezra Klein's New Venture

Hans van de Ven on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Happiness and Its Discontents, Part III

Happiness and Its Discontents, Part II

Happiness and Its Discontents, Part I

Michael Mann on the Responsibility of Climate Scientists

Katerina Kolozova on the Real in Contemporary Philosophy

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

The Nuclear Nightmares Still Lurking in Our World

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