May 7, 2010

John V. Lindsay revisited on Leonard Lopate and Fox News

Reaching a range of viewers and listeners, Sam Roberts, editor of America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, has been talking about the just-published book and the accompanying exhibit which opened at the Museum of the...

May 6, 2010

The Well-Being of America: A New Report from the American Human Development Project

The American Human Development Project (AHDP), whose Measure of America offered an index of well-being for Americans offers recently presented an update to their earlier findings. In their report, A Century Apart, The AHDP looks at life expectancy, educational attainment,...

May 5, 2010

John V. Lindsay: The book, exhibit, and movie

The just-published America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York accompanies an exhibit, opening today, at The Museum of the City of New York that looks back at the Lindsay administration, and its legacy. (A few of...

May 4, 2010

Edward Hess on false gods and Wall Street's Future

“Bankers are not theologians (and neither, it should be said, are business professors), but as new revelations continue to be made about the devastating effects of dubious instruments concocted by financial alchemists, the fair question that needs to be asked...

April 30, 2010

Who was Edith Granger?

With poetry month coming to a close, we thought we’d post about one of the crown jewels on the Columbia University Press poetry list, namely The Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry in Anthologies:. First published in 1904 and now in...

April 29, 2010

Paul Offit on the Vaccine War

On Tuesday night, Frontline broadcast The Vaccine War which examined the science of vaccine safety and the increasingly bitter debate between the public health establishment and a coalition of parents, celebrities, politicians and activists who are determined to resist pressure...

April 28, 2010

Kelly Oliver on ABC News to discuss Women as Weapons of War

Kelly Oliver author of Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media appeared yesterday on ABC News to talk about women in the military as well as to consider our fascination with female terrorists and suicide bombers. Oliver...

April 27, 2010

Five Years of YouTube

Last week of course was the fifth anniversary of YouTube leading to inevitable commentaries both celebrating its democratic possibilities and bemoaning it as a massive waste of time. For those looking for more innovative and thoughtful views of the phenomenon,...

April 26, 2010

Foreign Affairs reviews three Columbia/Hurst books on Afghanistan

In a lengthy review essay in Foreign Affairs, Seth Jones, who is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation and the author of In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan, considers three books recently published by Columbia...

April 23, 2010

Kenneth Posner and Edward Hess on Goldman Sachs and Financial Reform

In separate articles, Kenneth Posner and Edward Hess, two authors recently published by Columbia Business School Publishing, applied the arguments of their books to some of the most pressing and controversial issues in finance and business. First up is Kenneth...

April 22, 2010

Michael Dummett asks "What is a philosophical question"

Michael Dummett, considered by many to be one of the most important living philosophers, examines some of the most crucial and basic questions in his aptly titled new book, The Nature and Future of Philosophy. In addition to exploring such...

April 21, 2010

Critical Persepctives on Animals — Gary Francione and Gary Steiner

Over the past few years perhaps no field in the academy has been as vibrant or ambitious as animal studies. Scholars have examined the question of the animal and the relationship between animals and humans from a variety of fields...