February 14, 2012

Mari Ruti on Why We Fall in Love

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we offer a post from earlier this summer: Mari Ruti, author of The Summons of Love, also writes a blog for Psychology Today called The Juicy Bits: Love, lust, and the luster of life, recently...

February 14, 2012

New Book Tuesday: IR, Mystery, and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available, including a great selection of books in International Relations, including: Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa Susan Williams Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience Edited...

February 13, 2012

Amazon Reacts to Michael Mann and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

In a recent post, Climate Science Watch examines the response on Amazon to The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, by Michael Mann. While a most of the reviews of the book are quite strong...

February 10, 2012

William K. Tabb on Replacing Dependence on Financialization

We conclude our week-long feature on William K. Tabb’s The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time, with Tabb’s own conclusion in which he explores how the United States can reduce the impact of finacialization on the economy. Tabb argues that...

February 10, 2012

Santiago Zabala on Being a Communist in 2012

Communism, we have been told, has been consigned to the dustbin of history. Not so, according to Santiago Zabala, most recently the co-author with Santiago Zabala of Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx. In a recent article on Aljazeera, Santiago...

February 9, 2012

William K. Tabb on The Road Not Traveled—Nationalization

“The White House, whether under the management of Republicans or Democrats, was never ready for such a business-like approach. Ironically the abuse the administration would take for being ‘socialist’ would keep any chief executive from considering a protaxpayer, hardheaded business...

February 9, 2012

Association of American University Presses Turns 75

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) was officially founded on February 8, 1937 (Happy Birthday). Yesterday the AAUP web published an essay by Brenna McLaughlin looking at what led university presses to form an association. (According to the AAUP,...

February 8, 2012

Michael Marder: Resist Like a Plant! On the Vegetable Life of Political Movements

In the most recent issue of Peace Studies Journal, Michael Marder, author of the forthcoming Plant Thinking: Toward a Philosophy of Vegetative Life, examines the recent Occupy movements and its possible connections to vegetal life. Arguing that the politics of...

February 8, 2012

William K. Tabb on the Great Recession and the Lessons Learned and Not Learned

“What the decision-makers at the Fed and Treasury appear not to have learned is the most important lesson of all: that the financial sector has grown too large, too dangerous, and too parasitic.”—William K. Tabb In the concluding chapter to...

February 7, 2012

Jonathan Lyons on Islam, Women, and the West

“The expropriation of the rhetoric of women’s rights under Islam in order to unleash deadly violence on Muslim nations shows just how much the struggle for women’s equality has become a discursive one rather than a material one.”—Jonathan Lyons In...

February 7, 2012

The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time

The following excerpt is from our featured book The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time, by William K. Tabb: Not long ago the near collapse of the financial system discredited the excessive financialization central to contemporary American capitalism. By the...

February 7, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Camera Historica and New Titles from Hong Kong University Press

Our weekly list of new books includes the following: Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema Antoine de Baecque Japanese Cinema Goes Global: Filmworkers’ Journeys Yoshiharu Tezuka Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography Edited by May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn Creatures’ Paradise:...