December 17, 2018

A Video Tribute to 30 Years of Gender and the Politics of History, by Joan Wallach Scott

In October 2018, the Department of History at Simon Fraser University invited Joan Wallach Scott to give a public lecture in Vancouver, Canada. In the months leading up to the visit, Roxanne Panchasi, an Associate Professor of History at SFU...

December 13, 2018

Lance Freeman on A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America

 “A Haven and a Hell is a highly-accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban Black America.” ~Marcus Anthony Hunter, coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life Today we are featuring a guest post from Lance...

December 12, 2018

Book Excerpt! The Stigma Effect (preface)

“The strength of this book is the way it balances the interconnected components of self-stigma and public stigma, with equally strong treatment of both. It will be of interest to people interested or involved in stigma reduction, either as advocates,...

December 11, 2018

Q&A: Patrick Corrigan on The Stigma Effect

“How do we, as a society, reduce stigmatization of the seriously mentally ill? As Patrick Corrigan persuasively argues in this thorough inquiry into the subject, we should listen to their stories, for then we will discover fellow human beings, and...

December 11, 2018

New Book Tuesday! The Wise Advocate, The Handsome Monk and Other Stories, Postcolonial Theory, and More

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Save 30% on these new titles and more through December 31 with coupon code: Holiday2018 The Wise Advocate The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership Art Kleiner, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Josie Thomson...

December 7, 2018

Book Excerpt! Politics Recovered, edited by Matt Sleat (introduction)

“Politics Recovered is an impressive collection of original essays that constitutes a major contribution to the growing literature on political realism; an important and increasingly influential development in contemporary political theory.” ~ John Horton, Keele University •  •  •  • ...

December 6, 2018

The Role of Politics: A Word From Matt Sleat

“Our actual political institutions or experience should not contaminate the moral or philosophical purity of our political theories.” ~ Matt Sleat Today, we are graced with a guest post from Matt Sleat who edited Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory...

December 5, 2018

Book Excerpt! Journalism Under Fire, by Stephen Gillers (introduction)

“Gillers expertly weaves together legal texts, public policy, and normative theory to shed new light on the Press Clause, which, as the work makes clear, has been largely abandoned by the Supreme Court in recent years. The book develops a...

December 4, 2018

Q&A: Stephen Gillers on the Constitutional Protection of the Free Press

“Journalism Under Fire issues an extraordinarily timely five-alarm warning. It is a forceful response to those who today—and in the future—would demean and disparage the essential importance of a free press to American democracy.” ~Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation...

December 4, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Excessive Saints, Heading Home, Energy Kingdomsand More

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Excessive Saints Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Mystical Hagiographies Rachel J. D. Smith Heading Home Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality Shani Orgad Energy Kingdoms...

December 1, 2018

Walking the Toaster: an Excerpt from Illuminations on Market Street

“Benjamin Heim Shepard’s beautifully composed and wonderfully moving White Nights and Ascending Shadows is a fine and telling history of how one city faced—and still faces—the endless effects of AIDS.” ~ Michael Bronski, The Guide, Summer 1998 Today is World AIDS Day—a day...

November 30, 2018

Book Excerpt! Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (introduction)

“Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog hones in, acutely and in detail, on the often-unhappy convergence of ‘animal’ and ‘black’ in current and historical thought, deftly dismantling their rhetorical obfuscations while sacrificing neither ‘the animal’ nor ‘the black.’ Instead, she calls for attending to human-animal...