Category: Subject

May 6, 2015

The Definition of Terrorism: A Fundamental Counter-Terrorism Measure

Watch Boaz Ganor, author of GLOBAL ALERT: THE RATIONALITY OF MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORISM AND THE CHALLENGE TO THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC WORLD, discuss the necessity for creating and agreeing upon a definition of terrorism.

May 5, 2015

Boaz Ganor's Introduction to Global Alert

Read Boaz Ganor’s Introduction to GLOBAL ALERT: THE RATIONALITY OF MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORISM AND THE CHALLENGE TO THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC WORLD.

May 1, 2015

David Foster Wallace on Hedonism

Read “Wallace on Hedonism,” excerpted from “David Foster Wallace on the Good Life,” Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi’s essay in FREEDOM AND THE SELF: ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE.

April 30, 2015

Burton Watson Named Winner of 2015 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

Congratulations to Burton Watson, winner of the 2015 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation for his work as a translator of Chinese and Japanese literature!

April 30, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: David Foster Wallace on Ironism

Read “Wallace on Ironism,” excerpted from “David Foster Wallace on the Good Life,” Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi’s essay in FREEDOM AND THE SELF: ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE.

April 29, 2015

Read Steven Cahn and Maureen Eckert’s Introduction to Freedom and the Self

Read Steven Cahn and Maureen Eckert’s Introduction to their anthology of essays on the philosophy of David Foster Wallace, FREEDOM AND THE SELF.

April 28, 2015

David Foster Wallace as a Philosophy Student and a Philosopher

FREEDOM AND THE SELF is an anthology of essays engaging directly with David Foster Wallace’s challenge to Richard Taylor’s famous argument for fatalism, published in FATE, TIME, AND LANGUAGE. In today’s post, read an excerpt and watch videos that set the stage for our feature on FREEDOM AND THE SELF by explaining DFW’s philosophical work from FATE, TIME, AND LANGUAGE.

April 24, 2015

The Drugs Do Work (Sometimes) — Nessa Carey on Junk DNA and Medicine

Nessa Carey looks at how science’s growing knowledge of junk DNA is leading to new advances in medicine and the positive and negative role of Big Pharma.

April 23, 2015

Nessa Carey Introduces Us to Dark Genomic Matter

Read an excerpt from “An Introduction to Genomic Dark Matter,” a chapter in Nessa Carey’s JUNK DNA: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE DARK MATTER OF THE GENOME.

April 23, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: Sierra Nevada, by Tomaž Šalamun

Read “Sierra Nevada,” a poem from Tomaž Šalamun’s 2015 BTBA longlisted poetry collection, SOY REALIDAD! Happy National Poetry Month!

April 22, 2015

VIDEO: Nessa Carey Discusses Junk DNA

Watch Nessa Carey, author of JUNK DNA, discuss her new book.

April 22, 2015

Earth Day Video: Michael Mann on the Climate Wars

Michael Mann author of “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” discusses the political objections and obfuscations that have shaped the debate about climate change.