Category: Video

January 14, 2016

Are You Resolved to Eat More Insects in 2016? — The Insect Cookbook

With The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet now available in paper and given that many of us have resolved to eat better, or at least differently, in 2016, we are re-posting Marcel Dicke’s TED Talk. In the video,Dicke,...

December 3, 2015

Shrek in Casablanca, Ben Affleck in Tehran: American Culture in Middle East Circulation

In this video, Brian Edwards, author of “After the American Century,” discusses the circulation of U.S. culture in the contemporary Middle East.

December 2, 2015

Mark L. Clifford on The Greening of Asia

Mark L. Clifford, author of The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency, will be talking about issues relating to climate change in Asia at an event today at the China Institute. For those that can’t...

August 6, 2015

Watch Gabriel Weimann discuss "Terrorism in Cyberspace"

Watch Gabriel Weimann, author of TERRORISM IN CYBERSPACE: THE NEXT GENERATION, discuss his new book with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Wilson Center Now.

July 30, 2015

Rebecca Walkowitz on Writing in Translation

In this video, Rebecca Walkowitz, author of “Born Translated,” discusses writing in translation.

July 29, 2015

Video: Edward T. O'Donnell on Henry George

Watch a video of Henry George discussing his new book “Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age”.

July 16, 2015

Watch the book launch discussion of "The Hillary Doctrine"

Watch Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl, the authors of THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, discuss the importance of violence against women in foreign policy, the role of U.S. foreign policy in the world, and their new book with Rosa Brooks, Kathleen Kuehnast, and Daniela Ligiero.

June 4, 2015

Matthew Smith on the Peanut Allergy

In the following video, Matthew Smith examines the reasons behind the rise of the peanut allergy.

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.

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 22, 2015

VIDEO: Nessa Carey Discusses Junk DNA

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