October 2, 2009

The Prime Minister of Mauritius praises the Aid Trap

On September 24 during the UN General Assembly in New York, Dr. Honorable Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam of the Republic of Mauritius met with Dean R. Glenn Hubbard of Columbia Business School Here’s what PM Ramgoolam had to say about...

October 1, 2009

Have dinner with Andre (and Toby Talbot)

For those in New York City (and sorry for the short notice), there is a great event tonight at the New York Film Festival surrounding Toby Talbot’s new book The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at...

September 30, 2009

Do cell phones cause cancer?

Recently on the British Web site Spiked, Geoffrey Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology, takes a closer look at recent reports linking cell phone use and brain cancer. Kabat argues...

September 29, 2009

The Main Course interviews Andy Smith

In an interview on Heritage Radio Network’s show The Main Course Andy Smith discusses some of the 30 turning points in American food from his book, Eating History. In the interview he touches on topics as varied as the invention...

September 28, 2009

Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch on quintessential New York City dishes and more

In a recent interview with Serious Eats New York, Jonathan Deutsch and Annie Hauck Lawson, co-editors of Gastropolis: Food and New York City, talked about the history of New York City food and some of their favorite New York City...

September 23, 2009

Mark Taylor on melancholy

Paul Auster calls Mark Taylor’s Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections and Living Dying “an intoxicating whirl of a book, an engine of thought and feeling that touches on everything that counts most to us: living and dying, families, faith, friendship,...

September 22, 2009

The business of Africa — Forbes on The Aid Trap

An article to be published in the October 5th issue of Forbes discusses R. Glenn Hubbard (pictured above) and William Duggan’s new book The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty and their proposal for a Marshall Plan for Africa....

September 21, 2009

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

Joyce Mendelsohn is the author of  The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood. Question: What are some of the most dramatic changes to the Lower East Side in the last...

September 18, 2009

World Policy reviews Stephen Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

Perhaps Barack Obama’s decision to scrap the proposed antiballistic shield in Central and Eastern Europe will improve U.S.-Russian relations but as Stephen F. Cohen has argued, much still needs to be done to prevent another Cold War. In his most...

September 17, 2009

Interview with Mark C. Taylor, author of Field Notes from Elsewhere

The following is an interview with Mark Taylor, author of Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Living and Dying and professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. Question:  The book begins with an incredibly...

September 17, 2009

Stephen Prince discusses 9/11 films on NPR

Stephen Prince, author of Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism was recently on On the Media to discuss how filmmakers have taken on the challenge of capturing the truth of the 9/11 attacks. In the interview, Prince discusses...

September 16, 2009

Are two parents better for kids?

In a recently released study Claire Kamp Dush co-author of Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities, challenges the conventional wisdom that two-parent family are always best for children. The advantage that children get from living in two-parent families may actually...