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March 11, 2009

Is Obama Satan's Warm-up Act? Mark Hulsether in Religion Dispatches

As Mark Hulsether, author of Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States, notes in his recent piece in Religion Dispatches, “End Times believers consider Barack Obama as a serious contender for the Antichrist.” The Obama-as-Antichrist rhetoric got...

February 25, 2009

Interview with Bruce Gilley

The following is an interview with Bruce Gilley, author of The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy. Q: Isn’t legitimacy just smoke and mirrors, a way for the powerful to mystify and subdue the weak? Bruce Gilley:...

December 22, 2008

How to Win Islam Over — A New York Times Op-ed from Olivier Roy

“This idea of trying to reconcile Islam and the West is well intentioned, of course. But the premise is wrong.”—Olivier Roy and Justin Vaisse, New York Times In yesterday’s New York Times, Olivier Roy and Justin Vaisse challenged the rhetoric...

December 15, 2008

Editors of the Measure of America Speak at the Carnegie Council

The Carnegie Council has a very interesting post on their blog Fairer Globalization about Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis’s recent talk on The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009. You can watch a video of their talk here....

November 5, 2008

Jules Feiffer image from All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside the New York Times Op-Ed Page by Jerelle Kraus. This image originally ran in the New York Times in 2007 and while the caption...

November 5, 2008

Gerald Curtis on What an Obama Presidency Means for Japan

“There are several reasons why Japan should look forward to an Obama presidency. First of all, Obama is the first person to become President for whom Asia is not a far away region with which he has little personal experience...

November 4, 2008

How New York City Votes

With record turnout predicted in New York City for today’s election, we thought we’d look back at how New York City residents have voted in past elections via The Almanac of New York City. In the 43 elections from 1836-1904,...

October 7, 2008

CUP Authors Weigh in on the Economy and Sarah Palin

Like much of the country, Columbia University Press authors are thinking about and writing about the downturn in the U.S. economy and the presidential election. In his article Reversal of Fortune, appearing in the November issue of Vanity Fair, Joseph...

October 3, 2008

Good Format, Bad Format: A Post by Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates

The following is a post by Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates: Fifty-Years of High Risk TV. You can also read Alan Schroeder’s other posts on the 2008 debates. What a difference a format makes. In the first Obama-McCain debate...

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 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...

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