Category: Author-Editor Post/Op-Ed

April 4, 2013

Thomas Doherty — The Anti-Fascism of the 1930s and the Backstory to the Hollywood Blacklist

In the following essay, Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, examines how the ant-fascist movement in 1930s Hollywood shaped the blacklist in 1950s Hollywood: Last November, the Hollywood Reporter deviated from its normal beat and published and in-depth...

April 1, 2013

The Month Ahead, The Week That Was: Reviews, Author Events, and More

Forthcoming events with Columbia University Press authors in April include talks and signings by Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, Kara Newman, author of The Secret Financial Life of Food:...

March 20, 2013

Paul Pillar: Still Peddling Iraq War Myths, Ten Years Later

We continue our week long feature on the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq with a look at a recent essay by Paul Pillar, author of Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform. In the...

March 14, 2013

Catholics Without Popes — Julie Byrne

Amid all the anticipation, excitement, and, to some, endless coverage of the election of a new Pope, Julie Byrne, author of O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs and The Other Catholics (forthcoming), asks should there...

March 8, 2013

Michael Marder: The Philosopher's Plant

Read a quick summary of Michael Marder’s fascinating blog series “The Philosopher’s Plant” at Project Syndicate.

March 6, 2013

Michael Marder and Gary Francione debate plant ethics

Read an excerpt from a debate between Michael Marder, author of Plant-Thinking, and Gary Francione on plant ethics.

February 28, 2013

Ward Blanton: Paula Versus the New Philosophers, or, Incident in Beijing

Read an essay by Professor Ward Blanton on the importance of Badiou’s The Incident at Antioch to the study of St. Paul.

February 27, 2013

Susan Spitzer: Translating Alain Badiou's The Incident at Antioch and Plato's Republic

Susan Spitzer discusses the experience of translating two very different works by Alain Badiou.

February 21, 2013

Divine Decadence: Nightclubs in Bollywood Film — Kush Varia

The following essay on the role of the nightclub in Bollywood film is by Kush Varia, author of Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip, our featured book of the week. For more on the book, you can also read an interview...

February 20, 2013

Evolution and the Tools of Imagination — Christopher Collins

“When we open a book and turn its pages, our paleopoetic past is never very long ago or far away.”—Christopher Collins The following essay is by Christopher Collins, author of Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination In both biological...

February 19, 2013

Claude Piantadosi on the Meteor Crash in Siberia

“This strange happenstance of the DA 14 flyby and the Chelyabinsk explosion on the same day is a wake up call about how little we know actually know about space, even in our own region of the Solar System. What...

February 19, 2013

There's More to the Catholic Church than the Pope

“For all his influence, the pope makes up an infinitesimal fraction of the opinions and activities of Catholics.”—Julie Byrne Julie Byrne, author of O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs and the forthcoming The Other Catholics,...