Category: Author-Editor Post/Op-Ed

July 14, 2008

What's Different About the Immigration Problem We Face Today — And What Can Be Done About It?: A Post by Phil Kretsedemas

There is an interesting article by Phil Kretsedemas, co-editor of Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today, on History News Network which looks at the history of immigration policy and how the United States has defined...

July 8, 2008

Presidential Debabtes: Beyond the 4th of July / A Post by Alan Schroeder

The following post is by Alan Schroeder author of the recently published Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV. You can also read Schroeder’s description of the Nixon-Kennedy debate from Presidential Debates. To the chagrin of political junkies everywhere, the...

May 8, 2008

The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Nakba: A Posting by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod

Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod are the editors of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Across the world, people are marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Palestinian’s “nakba” (catastrophe). The Palestine/ Israel conflict has occupied center stage...

May 6, 2008

A Possible Peace between Israel and Palestine: A Posting from Menachem Klein

Menachem Klein is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and was a team member of the Geneva Initiative negotiations of 2003. He has advised both the Israeli government and the Israeli delegation for...

April 17, 2008

Against Argument: A Posting from Stephen Burt

Stephen Burt teaches in the English Department at Harvard University. He is most recently the author of The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence and is the author of three books of poems, including Parallel Play. Recent articles by...

March 21, 2008

Blogging Columbia University Press Authors

While we hope you stay and read the posts on this blog, we also want to let you know about some other Columbia-related blogs: Noelle McAfee, visiting professor of philosophy at George Mason University and author of the just published...

March 6, 2008

Winning the Battle Losing the War: A NYT Op-ed from James Willbanks

James Willbanks’s op-ed “Winning the Battle, Losing the War” appeared in yesterday’s New York Times. James Willbanks is the author of The Tet Offensive: A Concise History. In the piece, Willbanks looks at how the Tet Offensive, while considered a...

February 29, 2008

Humanity’s Growing Pains: A Post by Walter Dodds

Walter Dodds is a professor of biology at Kansas State and the author of Humanity’s Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment. Humanity is entering adolescence. For most of our history, the world has had unlimited capacity to take care...

February 15, 2008

Our February Presidents: A Post from Thomas W. Evans

Thomas W. Evans is the author of The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism. Four presidents were born in February: Washington and Lincoln, William Henry Harrison, and Ronald Reagan....

January 29, 2008

Donald Prothero: "Evolution: The Fossils Say Yes!"

The following post was written by Donald Prothero, author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. Back in 2005, “intelligent design” (ID) creationism was all the rage. President Bush endorsed the ID creationists, and they even made...