June 14, 2012

Santiago Zabala remembers Richard Rorty

Santiago Zabala looks back at the intellectual legacy of Richard Rorty, one of the most important philosophical figures of the last half century.

June 14, 2012

The Best Business Writing 2012 Sheds a Light on Patent Trolling

One of the more fascinating pieces in The Best Business Writing 2012 is When Patents Attack!, a story that was broadcast on NPR’s beloved “This American Life”. In the radio piece, Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell investigate how patent lawyers...

June 13, 2012

An interview with Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, editors of Poetry of the Taliban

Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn discuss their book in an interview with The Atlantic.

June 13, 2012

The Audit on Bad Business Journalism

Columbia Journalism Review‘s The Audit, which features all the editors of The Best Business Writing 2012, not only celebrates excellence in business journalism but also criticizes its failures. One fault, detailed in a 2009 piece by Dean Starkman , is...

June 12, 2012

Dean Starkman on the Importance of Business Journalism for Democracy

“It’s not going overboard to say that great business writing is the vital link between the public and the institutions that shape our economic lives.”—Dean Starkman, The Best Business Writing 2012 The following is an excerpt from Dean Starkman’s introduction...

June 12, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Aronowitz on Mills, the iPhone, Economists Speak Out, and Rivers

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals Stanley Aronowitz Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media Edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau The Economists’...

June 11, 2012

Santiago Zabala — Nietzsche on WikiLeaks

Santiago Zabala looks at Wikileaks through the thought of Nietzsche.

June 11, 2012

Book Giveaway! The Best Business Writing 2012

This week’s featured book is The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The book is part of our exciting new series from Columbia Journalism Review Books. Contributors include...

June 8, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best articles from the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 7, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics, Part Three

Michael Marder and Gary Francione finish their debate on the impact of “plant thinking” on dietary ethics.

June 7, 2012

Interview with Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies

Continuing our week-long focus on debates within animal studies, we wanted to spotlight a recent interview with Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida, that was posted on On Human-Nonhuman Relations. Calarco’s work,...

June 6, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics, Part Two

Gary Francione and Michael Marder continue their debate around Marder’s op-eds for the New York Times and the notion of plant ethics. You can read part 1 of the debate here. Question: What would it mean for ethical eating if...