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July 26, 2024
Beyond Ukraine
War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford Univers…
July 25, 2024
Love Me Fierce In Danger
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures i…
July 24, 2024
Endgame 1944
The war on the Eastern front remains relatively less well explored as compared to the western front of World War II. Yet some of the most titanic batt…
July 23, 2024
Autocracy, Inc.
"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that a…
July 22, 2024
Fascism in America
Has fascism arrived in America? In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered expe…
July 21, 2024
On Task
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this sh…
July 21, 2024
Capitalist Humanitarianism
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the …
July 21, 2024
American Zealots
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks ori…
July 20, 2024
Unsettling Choice
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually …
July 19, 2024
Ransom Kidnapping in Italy
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, an…
July 18, 2024
Equal Care
Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rat…
July 16, 2024
American Anarchy
In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or pri…
July 14, 2024
The Afterlife of Data
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but w…
July 13, 2024
Frenemies
Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe, or "frenemy" alliances, are unlike coalitions among ideologically-similar states facing …
July 12, 2024
I Spit on Your Celluloid
I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies (Headpress, 2024) by Heidi Honeycutt is the first book-length history of female…
July 11, 2024
The Slow Violence of Immigration Court
Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings…
July 10, 2024
The AI Mirror
There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and de…
July 9, 2024
Coming Out Republican
Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right (U Chicago Press, 2024) is a fascinating and engaging historical tour of those who were gay and acti…
July 8, 2024
Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique
Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace proce…
July 7, 2024
Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism
Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should …