October 9, 2020

Video: Penelope Deutscher and Jana Sawicki in Conversation with Lynne Huffer on Foucault’s Strange Eros

 “In a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book...

September 11, 2020

Video: Bernard E. Harcourt Asks, “Can Critical Theory Change the World?”

 “Today the paradigm has shifted and praxis must be posed as subjectivation. If before the problem consisted in responding to ‘What is to be done?,’ today the question is ‘What more am I to do?’ Harcourt thus transforms critical...

August 20, 2020

Video: Bruce D. Haynes on “What Makes Harlem Special?”

 “Bruce D. Haynes’s story is a classic American tale—which combines the big themes of history with the gritty reality of a single family’s extraordinary story.” ~Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNN...

August 18, 2020

Video: Lance Freeman on “What makes Harlem Special?”

 “In A Haven and a Hell, Lance Freeman seeks to amplify the relationship between ‘the ghetto’ as a place, policy, and idea and as a black experience, source of resistance, and community. Using multiple places and narratives, this book...

August 12, 2020

Video: The Tulika Story: An Interview with Indira Chandrasekhar

 This month, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Tulika Books. Watch this interview of Indira Chandrasekhar, the founder, publisher and managing editor of Tulika Books with Frederick F.N. Noronha, which took place in 2010. Chandrasekhar of Tulika Books in New Delhi...

August 11, 2020

Off the Page: Meghan Elizabeth Kallman on The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps

 “The Death of Idealism confronts the consequences of this void, and makes important contributions to theories of organizations, the history of American volunteering, and the history of the Peace Corps in particular.” ~Nina Eliasoph, author of Making Volunteers: Civic...

August 11, 2020

Video: Larry Cunningham on Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Model

“To truly understand Warren Buffett’s conglomerate, one needs to look beyond the extraordinary numbers and absorb the unique culture of Berkshire Hathaway. Every Berkshire shareholder—or investor of any other company, for that matter—should read Margin of Trust to better understand what makes...

August 10, 2020

Off the Page: Tania M. Jenkins on Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession

“This empirically rich comparative study shows how the medical profession conceptualizes itself as rewarding talent, all the while structurally organizing itself to reproduce inequalities. These are important insights for understanding the medical profession, and they extend well beyond, to a...

July 27, 2020

Webinar! SupChina’s Kaiser Kuo in Conversation with Brian Dott

 Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without...

June 10, 2020

Book Launch! David Lawler and Jeffrey D. Sachs on Globalization, Pandemics, Mass Protests, and Environmental Crisis

 Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In The Ages of Globalization:...

April 11, 2020

A Thank You Message to All the Essential Workers

 For Columbians, the fight against coronavirus in New York City—and worldwide—is personal. As part of the Columbia community we send our appreciation and admiration for all of you essential workers fighting to keep us fed, safe and healthy during...