August 31, 2016

Alan Schroeder on the Debating Styles of Kennedy and Nixon

Alan Schroeder, author of “Presidential Debates,” analyzes the now-legendary debate between Kennedy and Nixon and what went right and wrong for each candidate.

August 30, 2016

Interview with Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates

Alan Schroeder on what makes a good debater, how social media has changed presidential debates, and more.

August 30, 2016

New Book Tuesday: The Newest from Donald Keene, Essays by Abe Kobo and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available!

August 29, 2016

Eric Kandel, Michael Mann, Kosher Food, Exhaustion, and More Author Events in September

A roundup of our amazing author events coming to a city near you in September.

August 26, 2016

Rape on Campus: The Title IX Revolution

Read an article on the role that Title IX can play in the fight against campus rape, by Kelly Oliver, author of HUNTING GIRLS: SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE HUNGER GAMES TO CAMPUS RAPE.

August 25, 2016

Social Media and the Lack of Consent

“Given the continued use of social media to target, harass, and humiliate young women, it is telling that these technologies were born out of sexist attitudes. In their inception, some of the most popular social media sites were designed to denigrate women.” — Kelly Oliver

August 23, 2016

Dismantling Fantasies of Consent and Violence: Three Excerpts from Hunting Girls

“From fairytales to pornography, popular culture is filled with girls and women, unconscious or sleeping, ‘enjoying’ nonconsensual sex. And until we change our fantasies, it is going to be difficult to change our realities.”

August 23, 2016

Girls as Trophies: Introducing "Hunting Girls"

Read an excerpt from the introduction to HUNTING GIRLS: SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE HUNGER GAMES TO CAMPUS RAPE, by Kelly Oliver.

August 23, 2016

New Book Tuesday: the Madhouse Effect, the Psychic Cost of Free Markets, Chinese History and Culture, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available!

August 19, 2016

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the world of academic publishing.

August 18, 2016

A Lost World of Socialism

“One reason why thinking through Polanyi’s life is a rewarding exercise is that it enables us to think through the experience of reformist socialism, to explore a world that now appears marginal, even lost, and yet which only two or three generations ago was carving deep and distinctive tracks across the political and cultural landscape.”

August 17, 2016

The Man in the Middle

Read a guest post by Stephen Charbonneau, author of PROJECTING RACE: POSTWAR AMERICA, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND DOCUMENTARY FILM.