February 27, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly links roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

February 27, 2015

The Legacies of Reaganism and Reagan — Doug Rossinow

“Reagan was not a stupid man, but he sometimes took refuge in stu­pid lies.”–Doug Rossinow

February 26, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: Interview with Ishmael Reed

Read an interview with Ishmael Reed, from Dalkey Archive Press’s Review of Contemporary Fiction.

February 26, 2015

The Pop Culture of the Reagan Era — Doug Rossinow

“There was nothing new about the search for exhilaration and satisfaction. But in the 1980s, that quest took forms shaped by Reaganism’s celebration of money, power, and fame. By the decade’s later years, the era’s quest for gratification had burned...

February 26, 2015

Proposed 1920s Orphanage Study Just One Example in History of Scientific Racism — Michael Yudell

“Racism has indeed left its stain on scientific thought.”–Michael Yudell

February 25, 2015

Interview with Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler

“Up until 1938-1939, there were really no anti-Nazi films from the major Hollywood studios….For most of the 1930s, the major studios were missing in action.”—Thomas Doherty The following interview with Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, which is...

February 25, 2015

Reaganism and the Rise of the Carceral State — Doug Rossinow

Doug Rossinow, author of “The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s,” on the role of Reaganism in the war on drugs and the rise of the carceral state.

February 24, 2015

An Interview with Doug Rossinow, author of The Reagan Era

“We still live in the world Reagan and Reaganites made.”—Doug Rossinow The following is an interview with Doug Rossinow, author of The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s. Question: Were the 1980s really “the Reagan era”? Is it possible...

February 24, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Coins that Changed the World, The Highway of Despair, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books.

February 20, 2015

University Press Roundup

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February 20, 2015

Smoke, Mirrors, and Hot Air: The Denial of Global Warming — James L. Powell

“As bad as the effects of smoking have been and will be, they pale beside the death and destruction that global warming is set to visit upon us. Will Big Oil one day find itself in the courtroom?” — James L. Powell

February 19, 2015

"How can scientists be wrong for decades, yet science winds up being right?"

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth, by James Lawrence Powell. During the twentieth century, scientists made four fundamental and surprising discoveries about the Earth: our planet is...