September 19, 2011

Save St. Mark's Bookshop

St. Mark’s Bookshop, one of the best independent bookstores in New York City, is struggling to pay the market rent that Cooper Union is charging them at 31 3rd Ave in the East Village. There are two ways you can...

September 16, 2011

Paul Pillar on Iran

Paul Pillar’s recently published Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform explores some of the missteps in reorganizing intelligence in the wake of al-Qaeda attacks. One of the most crucial challenges facing U.S. intelligence and foreign policy...

September 16, 2011

Columbia University Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival

We’ve mentioned the various Columbia University Press authors who will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, including Hillary Chute, Kenneth Goldsmith, Richard Locke, and Clarence Taylor, however we also wanted to mention that Columbia University Press will be...

September 15, 2011

Paull Pillar on the Legacy of Propaganda and the Iraq War

“When an administration sets out to manipulate truth and falsehood as shamelessly as the promoters of the Iraq War did, the damage is not limited only to adoption of whatever policies the manipulators are promoting. The substantial lingering misconceptions among...

September 15, 2011

Kenneth Goldsmith at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Rounding out our listing of Columbia University Press authors at the Brooklyn Book Festival is Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. Goldsmith will be on the following panel at 1:00 pm Art in the...

September 14, 2011

Paul Pillar Challenges Conventional Wisdom on Intelligence Failures

As mentioned in previous posts, in his new book Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform, Paul Pillar confronts the intelligence myths Americans have come to rely on to explain national tragedies, including the belief that intelligence...

September 14, 2011

Richard Locke at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Richard Locke, author of the just-published Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels, will be moderating what sounds like will be a great panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival at 10:00 A.M.: Kids on the Skids Kevin...

September 13, 2011

Paul Pillar on the Dark Side

In 2006, Paul Pillar, author of Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform, appeared on the Frontline documentary The Dark Side, which examined how then-Vice President Richard Cheney pushed to expand executive power, transform America’s intelligence agencies...

September 13, 2011

Clarence Taylor at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Continuing our feature on Columbia University Press authors, who will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, we look at Clarence Taylor’s new book Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union. Reds...

September 13, 2011

New Book Tuesday: What Does A Jew Want?

What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters Udi Aloni; With Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity Kevin M. Cahill Governance Without a State?: Policies and Politics...

September 12, 2011

Paul Pillar on the Pretend Fix of U.S. Intelligence

“Ten years ought to be enough time for Americans to get over their overwhelming post-9/11 need for catharsis and reassurance and to look more critically at what was done for that purpose, including measures that pretend to be fixing something...

September 12, 2011

Antonio Gramsci's Letters from Prison: An Interview with the Editor Frank Rosengarten

The following is an interview with Frank Rosengarten, editor of Antonio Gramsci’s Letters from Prison, volumes 1 and 2, which has recently been released in paperback editions. Question: How would you explain the worldwide interest in Antonio Gramsci’s Letters from...