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...

February 23, 2012

Scientific American Interviews Michael E. Mann

“We’ve lost three years to do something about climate change, and that’s a huge opportunity cost. Each year we wait, it gets that much more difficult to stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations below levels that might very well be dangerous. I...

February 22, 2012

The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace Revisited

Yesterday would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday and on this occasion, we wanted to look back at our recent publication of his, Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will. For a more in-depth discussion of David...

February 22, 2012

Michael Mann Discusses "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" with Chris Mooney

In a fascinating interview with Chris Mooney on Point of Inquiry, Michael Mann discusses a variety of issues relating to his new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Chris Mooney begins the interview...

February 21, 2012

VIDEO: Michael Mann on "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"

Following up on our post on Michael Mann’s interview with the Guardian about his new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, here is a video produced in conjunction with the story:

February 21, 2012

New Book Tuesday: The AIDS Conspiracy, Confronting Postmaternal Thinking, and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available! The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back Nicoli Nattrass Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care Julie Stephens Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue Nicholas M. Teich Japan and the...

February 17, 2012

The Legacy of Dag Hammarskjold

“I realize now, that in comparison to [Dag Hammarskjöld], I am a small man. He was the greatest statesman of our century.”—John F. Kennedy We conclude our week-long feature on Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White...