October 29, 2009

Zoographies, Deconstruction, and Vegetarianism

We are following up on yesterday’s post on animal studies with a look at the group blog The Inhumanities, which just completed its discussion of Matthew Calarco’s Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida. Cary Wolfe, a...

October 28, 2009

Animal Studies round-up

The Chronicle Review recently featured a series of articles exploring the rise of animal studies in the academy. Articles include Creature Consciousness, which explores some of the theoretical and philosophical foundations of animal studies as well as the line that...

October 28, 2009

R. Glenn Hubbard, Jeffrey Sachs, and others on rebuilding war-torn socieites

Last Friday, R. Glenn Hubbard, author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, participated in a conference on how to rebuild war-torn societies, with specific attention paid to Africa and Afghanistan. Video portions of the conference, including remarks...

October 26, 2009

Archives from the New Yorker Theater

The New Yorker Theater was known not only for the movies it showed but for the people who came to the theater to watch everything from the newest New Wave film to a forgotten Hollywood classic. Patrons to the theater...

October 23, 2009

New York Review of Books roundup of books on Hamas

This week’s issue of the New York Review of Books features an essay on Hamas titled “Which Way for Hamas? written by Nicolas Pelham and Max Rodenbeck. One of the books featured in the essay is Jeroen Gunning’s Hamas in...

October 22, 2009

Interview with Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, authors of Jewish Terrorism in Israel

The following is an interview with Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, authors of Jewish Terrorism in Israel. You can also read an interview with Pedahzur discussing his previous book The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism or browse...

October 21, 2009

Interview with Joyce Mendelsohn, author of The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited

Joyce Mendelsohn, author of The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited was recently interviewed on Talkline with Zev Brenner. In the interview (which starts at the 40 minute mark in the podcast) she discusses the state of the Jewish community...

October 21, 2009

Sale! Save on Science titles

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October 20, 2009

"People describe me as a vaccine advocate, I see myself as a science advocate." — Paul Offit

The following quote is from a lengthy feature in Wired magazine on Paul Offit, his battle against anti-vaccination advocates, the mistrust of science, and the dangerous implications of not vaccinating children. Offit, author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky...

October 19, 2009

Farzana Shaikh: Will Pakistan finally buckle?

In an op-ed in yesterday’s Independent, Farzana Shaikh, author of Making Sense of Pakistan, begins her analysis of recent events in the country by writing, Will Pakistan finally buckle? After a week that has witnessed some of the boldest and...

October 16, 2009

THES reviews Christopher Davidson's Abu Dhabi

In a recent review the Times Higher Education Supplement praises Christopher Davidson’s latest book, Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, writing, “Specialists and non-specialists will be treated to a critical yet deeply sympathetic account of the raison d’etre and very identity...

October 15, 2009

More from Paul Offit on the flu vaccine

On Monday, NPR’s Talk of the Nation interviewed Dr. Paul Offit, author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. about the swine flu vaccine. Dr. Offit was a guest as result of his...