March 2, 2012

The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History Hits the Airwaves

The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History, edited by Paul Harvey and Edward J. Blum was recently featured on the podcast, Books and Culture. The podcast discusses a variety of the essays but on his blog Religion in American...

March 1, 2012

Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed in the Gaza Strip

In a chapter from Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, Caroline Abu-Sada recounts and analyzes some of the complications Doctors Without Borders//Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has grappled with in Palestine. Specifically, Doctors Without Borders has had to navigate a perilous...

March 1, 2012

Happy (Belated) Birthday to Judith Butler

February 24 was the birthday of famed philosopher Judith Butler. Butler is a prolific scholar of diverse interests. She has published important books on feminist and queer theory, modern French philosophy, literature and literary theory, political ethics, and Jewish philosophy....

February 29, 2012

Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed — Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan

The authors of Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience recount their experiences with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In particular they focus on some of the practical and frequently difficult experience of having to work with unfriendly governments or...

February 29, 2012

Denis Lacorne: Breaking Down the Wall of Separation from JFK to Santorum and Romney

“Excessive or opportunistic professions of faith can only damage the political process when the truth is distorted in the name of religion to the point of absurdity.”—Denis Lacorne Recent news about the Republican primary has seen its fair share of...

February 28, 2012

Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed in Somalia

On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience exploring the practical realities of conducting humanitarian negotiations in complex situations. In a recent...

February 28, 2012

New Book Tuesday — Mark Taylor on Art and The Foundations of the American Century

The following titles are now available: Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy Mark C. Taylor Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power Inderjeet Parmar Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global...

February 27, 2012

Santiago Zabala: How to Be a European (Union) Philosopher

In recent weeks, Santiago Zabala, coauthor of Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx, has been writing about the importance of continental philosophy in addressing some of the current political, economic, and even existential crises. In a recent op-ed in the...

February 27, 2012

Book Giveaway — Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience

This week our featured book is Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, edited by Claire Magone, Michael Neuman, and Fabrice Weissman, published on the fortieth anniversary of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. Throughout the week we will highlight aspects of...

February 24, 2012

Luis Barrios and David Brotherton on Desperation in the Dominican Republic

“Once again we are face to face with what dependency feels like in an area of the world almost completely dominated and controlled by US and European foreign interests.”—Luis Barrios and David Brotheron on the Dominican Republic In a recent...

February 24, 2012

Michael Mann: "A Look into Our Climate: Past to Present to Future"

We conclude our week-long feature on The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael Mann with this video of a recent talk he gave for the TEDxPSU series. The title of the talk was...

February 23, 2012

Jay Garfield on David Foster Wallace as Philosopher

“I thought of David as a very talented young philosopher with a writing hobby, and did not realize that he was instead one of the most talented fiction writers of his generation who had a philosophy hobby.” – Professor Jay...