Category: Subject

October 3, 2008

Interview with Loren Ghiglione, author of CBS's Don Hollenbeck

The following is an interview with Loren Ghiglione, author of CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism: Q:  Why should we care about a journalist who killed himself more than a half-century ago? Loren Ghiglione:  His...

October 2, 2008

Autism's False Prophets on the ScienceBlogs Book Club

“A couple of bloggers praised [Autism’s False Prophets] for its tone, that I never appeared to get angry at the false prophets described in the book. The reason for that is that I’m not the father of a child with...

October 1, 2008

Lionel Trilling's Annus Mirabilis

In a recent Newsweek article, Jeremy McCarter describes 2008 as an annus mirabilis for literary critic, frustrated novelist, and former Columbia professor Lionel Trilling. Three books by Trilling were published or reprinted this year, including the never-before-published novel, The Journey...

September 30, 2008

The Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Matt Shepard: A Post by Beth Loffreda

The following post is by Beth Loffreda, author of Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder. Loffreda is also director of the MFA Program and associate professor of English at the University of Wyoming. Last...

September 29, 2008

Top Economists Examine the Crises in the Financial and Real Estate Markets

Some economists saw the dangers of the housing bubble before the recent collapse. In his piece from The Economists’ Voice: Top Economists Take on Today’s Problems, published earlier this year, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy...

September 29, 2008

Interview with Daniel Herwitz, author of The Star as Icon

The following is an interview with Daniel Herwitz, author of The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption: Q: There’s a Lady Diana book industry out there that keeps the discount catalogues of England and America in...

September 26, 2008

Alan Schroeder on Politico.

In a widely discussed article on Politico, Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV, assess the stylistic strengths and weaknesses of each candidate when it comes to debating. Even with the status of tonight’s debate in...

September 25, 2008

John McCain's Risky Maneuver: A Post from Alan Schroeder

The following is a post by Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV: The gambit by John McCain to postpone Friday night’s opening debate at Ole Miss entails considerable risk to the candidate. History shows that...

September 24, 2008

Interview with Frederic Reamer and Deborah H. Siegel

The following is an interview with Frederic Reamer and Deborah Siegel, authors of Teens in Crisis: How the Industry Serving Struggling Teens Helps and Hurts Our Kids: Question: What do you mean by “struggling teens,” and on what programs and...

September 23, 2008

The History News Network and the Wall Street Journal on Men to Boys

Gary Cross’s essay on the History News Network site offers a very good crystallization of the main arguments he puts forth in Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity. In the piece Cross points to how contemporary men in...

September 22, 2008

How East Asians View Democracy

East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. How...

September 19, 2008

Autism's False Prophets by Paul Offit

Earlier this week, The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a very interesting profile of Dr. Paul Offit, author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. The article describes Offit’s work as well as the ways...