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The Future of Higher Education
July 22, 2022
The Real World of College
What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner
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Galina Limorenko
For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,00 …
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Religion
July 20, 2022
Postsecular History
Political Theology and the Politics of Time
Maxwell Kennel
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David Kunsman
In this thought provoking book entitled PostSecular History: Political Theology and The Politics of Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Max Kennel explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow …
Medicine
July 20, 2022
Our Transgenic Future
Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature
Lisa Jean Moore
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Rachel Pagones
The process of manipulating the genetic material of one animal to include the DNA of another creates a new transgenic organism. Several animals, notably goats, mice, sheep, and cattle are …
Military History
July 18, 2022
Why Humans Fight
The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence
Siniša Malešević
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Christian Nielsen
In his book Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (2022, Cambridge University Press), Siniša Malešević emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting …
American Studies
July 13, 2022
The Future of Decline
Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits
Jed Esty
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Brittney Edmonds
As the US becomes a second-place nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? The debate over the US's fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for …
Science, Technology, and Society
July 11, 2022
The Digital Republic
On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Jamie Susskind
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Austin Clyde
From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) is the definitive guide to the great …
Environmental Studies
July 5, 2022
A People's Green New Deal
Max Ajl
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Eyad Houssami
The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. It has become a watchword in the current era of global …
Geography
July 5, 2022
The Value of a Whale
On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Adrienne Buller
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Stentor Danielson
In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the …
Philosophy
July 1, 2022
On Believing
Being Right in a World of Possibilities
David Hunter
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Robert Talisse
According to many standard philosophical accounts, beliefs are a kind of stance one takes toward a proposition. To believe that Nashville is in Tennessee is to adopt a certain attitude …
Biology and Evolution
June 27, 2022
Different
Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
Frans de Waal
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Galina Limorenko
In Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (W. W. Norton, 2022), world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal …
Science, Technology, and Society
June 27, 2022
How to Take Over the World
Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
Ryan North
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Galina Limorenko
Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What's the perfect location for a floating secret base? What zany heist will fund …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
June 24, 2022
Gifts from the Dark
Learning from the Incarceration Experience
Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney
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Zalman Newfield
While in no way supporting the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, in Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience (Lexington Books, 2021), Joni Schwartz and John …
Economic and Business History
June 23, 2022
Why We Fight
The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
Christopher Blattman
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Javier Mejia
In Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace (Viking, 2022), Chris Blattman explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly …
Critical Theory
June 22, 2022
Scorched Earth
Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Jonathan Crary
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Cody Skahan
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social …
Science
June 21, 2022
Plan S for Shock
Science. Shock. Solution. Speed.
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells
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Galina Limorenko
Plan S: the open access initiative that changed the face of global research. Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells's book Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed. (Ubiquity Press, 2022) tells …
Economics
June 17, 2022
Spin Dictators
The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
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Peter Lorentzen
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally …
Economics
June 15, 2022
The Sharing Economy
Its Pitfalls and Promises
Michael Munger
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Peter Lorentzen
Transactions have always taken place. For hundreds of years that 'place' was a market or, more recently, a shopping mall. But in the past two decades these physical locations have …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
June 14, 2022
The Future of Religion
A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar
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Owen Bennett-Jones
Of the many differences between the West and the rest of the world the issue of religiosity is one of the most striking. In the West ever fewer people belong …
Economic and Business History
June 9, 2022
How the World Became Rich
The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin
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Javier Mejia
Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? In How the World Became …
Mobilities and Methods
June 8, 2022
Militarized Global Apartheid
Catherine Besteman
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Alize Arıcan
In Militarized Global Apartheid (Duke UP. 2020), Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide …
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