January 20, 2025

Is It Possible to Have a Disciplined White House with an Undisciplined President?

Matthew N. Beckmann

Donald Trump recently named Susie Wiles as his incoming White House chief of staff. Wiles proved herself a focused, organized campaign manager, and she intends to bring that manner and method to the White House: “My team and I will...

January 20, 2025

Lauren Coyle Rosen and Hannibal Lokumbe on Music, Life, and Liberation

For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, Lokumbe composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, Indigenous...

December 16, 2024

Mike Harmon on The Financial Restructuring Tool Set

Many companies globally are saddled with excessive levels of debt. This can lead to financial distress. In The Financial Restructuring Tool Set: How to Fix Your Broken Balance Sheet, Mike Harmon provides an indispensable guide tailored for executives, business owners,...

December 9, 2024

Fourteen Books for Understanding Challenges to Freedom and Democracy

University presses play a vital role in publishing works that deepen our understanding of current events, particularly in areas such as democracy and the challenges it faces. By publishing books that foster critical scholarship and diverse philosophical perspectives, Columbia University...

December 4, 2024

Six Animal Tracks to Look for on Your Next Hike

Sharman Apt Russell

Imagine walking along a forested mountain trail and coming across footprints impressed in the dirt. You think, “Do they belong to a fox, a bobcat, or a coyote? What animal fits these marks on the ground?” Combining lyrical memoir with...

November 27, 2024

A Historical Roadmap to Understanding the United States’ Relationship with China

Thomas M. Larkin

How does one make sense of the relationship between the United States and China? Where should one even begin? China and the United States are the world’s two largest economies by a significant margin, and entangled ones at that. A...

November 18, 2024

Why Western Policy Makers Should Worry About Sanctions Inoculation

Agathe Demarais

In 1796 the British scientist Edward Jenner had a seemingly outlandish theory: he believed that catching mild cowpox rendered one immune to deadly smallpox. Jenner did not shy away from testing his assumption. He exposed an eight-year-old boy to cowpox...

November 14, 2024

Caelyn Cobb on Stepping UP for Turbulent Times

Making Sense of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

In Columbia University Press’s 130-plus year history, we’ve published countless books about the strife in the region, with many more on the way.

November 13, 2024

Miranda Martin on Stepping UP for Climate Science

Understanding Paleoclimatology, Climate Models, and Urban Planning

The climate crisis is a complex problem that affects all of us in myriad ways and requires a range of actions across governments, industries, and disciplines.

October 21, 2024

13 Must-Read Books for Understanding U.S. Policies and Media Relations

Raina Mansfield

Continuing our recommendations for books to read as the election cycle heats up, we curated a list of books about U.S. domestic concerns, such as climate activism, policing, immigration, and race relations, as well as books that provide insights on...

October 17, 2024

Claudia Leeb on Contesting the Far Right

In Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminate how economic and psychological factors interact to produce an extreme political shift to the far right. She examines...

October 16, 2024

The War on Mothers

Gil Anidjar

I am my mother’s child. Like every soul on earth, I have been mothered. Whence my writing on, to and from, mothers. We tell ourselves many stories, and many of them have to do with beginnings. The Mayflower, the American...