Category: Author-Editor Post/Op-Ed

July 10, 2013

August Turak: Why Being Selfless is Good for Business

This week our featured book is Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning, by August Turak. Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning writer. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast...

July 1, 2013

Laura Frost: You probably didn’t read the most telling part of Orwell’s “1984″—the appendix

Read an article by Laura Frost in which she discusses the crucial importance of the appendix to George Orwell’s classic, 1984.

June 25, 2013

Gyorgy Scrinis on Nutritionism

The following post is by Gyorgy Scrinis, author of Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice: Does the food you’re eating contain good or bad fats, good or bad carbs, vitamin D, fiber, calcium, antioxidants, cheap calories, or empty...

June 19, 2013

Michael Marder and Monica Gagliano: How Do Plants Sound?

Michael Marder and Monica Gagliano discuss new research that shows that plants may make sounds independently of dehydration and cavitation-related processes.

June 18, 2013

Donna Dickenson — Me Medicine vs. We Medicine

“I ask this crucial question: how did we move from what was originally presented as a communitarian vision for the new genetic biomedicine to the now-dominant personalized medicine paradigm?”—Donna Dickenson The following post is by Donna Dickenson, author of Me...

June 13, 2013

Denny Roy — The US and China Should Stop Striving for Trust

“Strategic trust will not be attainable for the foreseeable future. The U.S. and China have many areas of fruitful cooperation, which can and should go forward without waiting for trust to break out…. For these inherent rivals and potential adversaries,...

June 7, 2013

"Dirtied” Star images and Acting Against Type in "Behind the Candelabra" — Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait

The following blog post is by Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait, authors of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape. You can also read an interview with the authors. In our book, The Cinema...

June 6, 2013

A Richard Linklater Moment — Rob Stone

The following is a post by Rob Stone, author of The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don’t Run. You can also read an interview with Rob Stone discussing the book and Linklater’s films: When the British-Canadian film scholar Robin Wood...

May 15, 2013

Poetry: The News that Stays News — Stephen Burt

“So where did this idea come about that poems are the opposite of journalism, that poets do what reporters cannot, and vice versa?”—Stephen Burt The following post by Stephen Burt was originally published on Nieman Reports. In the post Stephen...

May 15, 2013

Michael M. Weinstein – The Robin Hood Foundation and "Relentless Monetization"

Read a guest post from Michael Weinstein, in which he explains how The Robin Hood Foundation decides what to fund when there are so many important programs that need funding.

May 2, 2013

David A. Nibert – A History of Domesecration, Part 2

Read the second of an essay by David A. Nibert, author of Animal Oppression and Human Violence, in which he discusses the pernicious effect the domesecration of animals has on humankind.

May 1, 2013

David A. Nibert – A History of Domesecration, Part 1

Read the first part of an essay by David A. Nibert, author of Animal Oppression and Human Violence, in which he discusses the history of the phenomenon of the oppression of nonhuman animals by humans.