June 8, 2010

Geoffrey Kabat on Hyping Health Risks in Brazil

Columbia University Press titles are read and translated throughout the world. The following post is from Geoffrey Kabat, who describes the reception of his book in Brazil: About five months ago a large Brazilian publishing house put out a Portuguese...

June 7, 2010

Arthur Danto on sitting with Marina Abramovic

Arthur Danto, author of The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, Narration and Knowledge, Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life and many other titles, recently wrote a piece for The Stone, the New York Times new philosophy blog,...

June 4, 2010

Laura Katz Olson: Is Medicaid the best path to take for Health Care Reform?

The following post is by Laura Katz Olson, author of The Politics of Medicaid. As the only industrialized nation that does not have some type of universal health care, the United States has long been overdue for reform. Nevertheless, a...

June 3, 2010

Kenneth Posner: Planning for a World of Black Swans

Unpredictable events or “Black Swans,” a term popularized by Nassim Taleb, are a facet of the twenty-first century economy and we should learn how to live with it rather than wish them away. In a recent essay for the Huffington...

June 2, 2010

The Hispanic New York Project Web site

For those interested in keeping up with and learning more about Latino news and issues in the United States and New York City, the Hispanic New York Project is an excellent resource. The site is edited by Claudio Ivan Remeseira,...

June 1, 2010

Has Obama averted a new Cold War with Russia? Stephen Cohen weighs in.

At a recent talk at the Carnegie Council, Stephen Cohen, author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, discussed some of the key features of his book as well as assessing Obama’s policy toward...

May 28, 2010

David Foster Wallace’s "Fate, Time, and Language."

One of our most-talked-about forthcoming books during the just-closed BEA and online has been David Foster Wallace’s never-before-published Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will. The book includes Wallace’s undergraduate thesis along with essays exploring the work’s philosophical...

May 27, 2010

Victor Cha on the crisis in the Korean peninsula

“It was a clearly premeditated act. And it is the most serious act of aggression by the North against the South, military-to-military, since the end of the Korean War. I mean they’ve done terrorist acts that have killed more people,...

May 26, 2010

Kenneth Posner on how to stop the next banking crisis

In an op-ed written for Fortune, Kenneth Posner, author of the recently published Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, provides a solution for stopping the next banking crisis. In light of the...

May 25, 2010

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef in the New Yorker and on Al Jazeera

Steve Coll’s fascinating article in this week’s New Yorker War by Other Means (subscription required) examines the current role of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the debates about whether or not the United States should negotiate with them. One of...

May 24, 2010

Is is too big to fail? Andrew Lakoff on our energy production system

In a piece for the Huffington Post, Andrew Lakoff, editor of the just published Disaster and the Politics of Intervention, examines what if anything can be learned from the debate over financial reform as attention turns to the regulatory reforms...

May 21, 2010

Interview with Douglas Walrath on Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction

The following is an interview with Douglas Alan Walrath, author of Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction Question:  Most books stem from an author’s experience as well as from his or her professional interests.  Is...