Category: Book of the Week

AMI PEDAHZUR TALKS ISRAELI SECRET SERVICES AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TERRORISM nAmi Pedahuzur is the author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism.nnQ: Have you ever worked for the Mossad or any other intelligence agency?nnAmi Pedahzur: No. never....

The following is an interview with R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World. For more on the book, you can also read Parkinson’s blog post, Same-Sex Desire in the British Museum or...

nnThe Mutual Fund Industry: Competition and Investor Welfare, by R. Glenn Hubbard, Michael F. Koehn, Stanley Ornstein, Marc Van Audenrode, and Jimmy Royer, was recently published by Columbia Business School Publishing. The following is an interview Stanley Ornstein and Mark...

The following is an interview with Naomi Oreskes, coauthor of, with Erik M. Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future:nnQuestion: In The Collapse of Western Civilizationyou approach climate change as a fictionalized future historian of science. How does...

n n n n nnThe following is an interview with Mitchell A. Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk.nnQ: Is Social Security going to be there when I retire?nnMitchell Orenstein: Surprisingly, the answer is yes. After...

n n n n nnQ: What do you mean that women are weapons of war?nnKelly Oliver: I was inspired to write Women as Weapons of War when I noticed that the news media repeatedly describe women soldiers as weapons. For...