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Kate Brown, "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
May 19, 2026
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)
May 12, 2026
Russell McCutcheon, "Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia, second edition" (Oxford UP, 2026)
May 04, 2026
Justin Bailey, "An Anthropology of Wandering: How Adventure Can Alleviate a Fearful Culture" (2026)
Apr 25, 2026
Liz Bucar, "Beyond Wellness: How Restoring the Religious Roots of Spiritual Practices Can Heal Us" (Penguin, 2026)
Apr 23, 2026
Adam Zeman, "The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 08, 2026
Melissa Butcher, "The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Apr 07, 2026
Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 06, 2026
Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
Mar 30, 2026
On Our Continuing Age of Oil with Journalist Stanley Reed
Mar 28, 2026
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Mar 25, 2026
The Philosophy of Hope: On Immanence and Transcendence with R.J. Snell
Mar 25, 2026
Gist Books: How Print on Demand Creates New Possibilities for the Publishing Industry
Mar 23, 2026
César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)
Mar 16, 2026
John Oakes, "The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without" (Avid Reader, 2024)
Mar 15, 2026
Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education
Mar 06, 2026
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 21, 2026
Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Feb 05, 2026
Gregory T. Chin and Kevin P. Gallagher, "China and the Global Economic Order" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Feb 02, 2026
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Jan 24, 2026
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Jan 18, 2026
Sean Mathews, "The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East" (Hurst, 2025)
Jan 09, 2026
Tomer Persico, "In God's Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea" (NYU Press, 2025)
Jan 08, 2026
Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
Jan 06, 2026
Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 06, 2026
Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 02, 2026
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 01, 2026
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jan 01, 2026
Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Dec 29, 2025
Graham Harman, "Waves and Stones: The Continuous and the Discontinuous in Human Thought" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Dec 15, 2025
Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI
Dec 03, 2025
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Nov 19, 2025
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
Nov 18, 2025
The Technological Soul: Alex Priou on Modernity, Ideology, and the Limits of Reason
Nov 06, 2025
brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025)
Nov 04, 2025
Jane G. Goldberg, "Wired for Why: How We Think, Feel, and Make Meaning" (2025)
Oct 31, 2025
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)
Oct 23, 2025
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Oct 20, 2025
What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala
Oct 09, 2025
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
Oct 06, 2025
Sasha Davis, "Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Oct 01, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, "Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do" (APS Press, 2025)
Sep 29, 2025
Jon Mills, "End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Sep 22, 2025
Peter Lamont, "Radical Thinking: How to See the Bigger Picture" (Swift Press, 2024)
Sep 07, 2025
Who Needs College Anymore: Imagining A Future Where Degrees Don’t Matter
Sep 05, 2025
Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith
Sep 04, 2025
Anthony Bonato, "Dots and Lines: Hidden Networks in Social Media, AI, and Nature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Sep 03, 2025
David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 01, 2025
Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Aug 27, 2025
Mark L. Haas, "The Geriatric Peace: Population Aging and the Decline of War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 27, 2025
Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 26, 2025
Walter Scheidel, "What Is Ancient History?" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Aug 25, 2025
Jack Buffington, "Environmental Innovation: An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and the Planet by 2050" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Aug 24, 2025
Mario Livio and Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life" (Basic Books, 2024)
Aug 21, 2025
Thomas Christian Bächle and Jascha Bareis eds., "The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (Bristol UP, 2025)
Aug 19, 2025
Todd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Aug 18, 2025
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 14, 2025
Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World
Aug 12, 2025
Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Aug 11, 2025
Ben Zweibelson, "Reconceptualizing War" (Helion, 2025)
Aug 07, 2025
David J. Helfand, "The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Aug 07, 2025
Zack Cooper, "Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries" (Yale UP, 2025)
Aug 06, 2025
Lizzie Wade, "Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures" (Harper, 2025)
Aug 04, 2025
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
Aug 04, 2025
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Aug 03, 2025
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Aug 02, 2025
The Nomadic Origin of the State
Aug 01, 2025
On Bullshit in AI
Jul 31, 2025
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 30, 2025
Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Jul 29, 2025
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jul 25, 2025
On Bullshit in Politics
Jul 12, 2025
Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025)
Jul 11, 2025
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
Jul 08, 2025
The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi
Jun 23, 2025
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 22, 2025
Introducing The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung
Jun 16, 2025
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 09, 2025
Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy
Jun 05, 2025
Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 02, 2025
Peter Allen, "How to Think about Politics: A Guide in Five Parts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 28, 2025
Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 18, 2025
Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)
May 17, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 16, 2025
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
May 13, 2025
Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)
May 07, 2025
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
May 06, 2025
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 05, 2025
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025
How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
Apr 26, 2025
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
Apr 22, 2025
Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?
Apr 19, 2025
David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 12, 2025
Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)
Apr 11, 2025
Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
Apr 09, 2025
William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 08, 2025
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
Apr 02, 2025
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Mar 30, 2025
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Mar 27, 2025
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
Mar 25, 2025
Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 24, 2025
Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)
Mar 23, 2025
Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025
Bruce Hood, "The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Mar 15, 2025
M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 10, 2025
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 08, 2025
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 04, 2025
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 03, 2025
Jeff Yoshimi, "Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery" (MIT Press, 2025)
Feb 27, 2025
Steven Lesk, "Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness" (Prometheus, 2023)
Feb 26, 2025
The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
Feb 19, 2025
Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024)
Feb 15, 2025
Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Feb 13, 2025
Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
Feb 11, 2025
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Feb 07, 2025
Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)
Feb 05, 2025
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
Feb 04, 2025
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jan 31, 2025
James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jan 27, 2025
Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
Jan 20, 2025
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Jan 15, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Jan 11, 2025
David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)
Jan 08, 2025
Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024)
Jan 01, 2025
Michael Fuerstein, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 01, 2025
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Dec 31, 2024
Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 29, 2024
Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Dec 29, 2024
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 28, 2024
Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2024
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 25, 2024
Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)
Dec 23, 2024
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
Dec 23, 2024
Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
Dec 16, 2024
Andrea Scarantino, "Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide" (Routledge, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024
Andy Hines, "Imagining After Capitalism" (Triarchy Press, 2025)
Dec 07, 2024
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Dec 06, 2024
Alexander Guerrero, "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 04, 2024
Yochai Ataria, "Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World" (Magnes Press, 2019)
Dec 04, 2024
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
Dec 03, 2024
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024
Brian Donahue, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" (Yale UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
Nov 20, 2024
Rachael Litherland and Philly Hare, "People with Dementia at the Heart of Research: Co-Producing Research through The Dementia Enquirers Model" (Jessica Kingsley, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024
Matti Eklund, "Alien Structure: Language and Reality" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024
Libuse Hannah Veprek, "At the Edge of AI: Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations" (Transcript, 2024)
Nov 08, 2024
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
Nov 07, 2024
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
Nov 05, 2024
Anneli Jefferson, "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" (Routledge, 2024)
Nov 04, 2024
Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
Nov 01, 2024
David Peña-Guzmán: Animals Dream and that Makes Them Morally Considerable (JP)
Oct 31, 2024
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 30, 2024
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 29, 2024
Peter Harrison, "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Oct 29, 2024
Nathan J. Murphy, "The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule our Lives and How to Change it" (Prepolitica, 2024)
Oct 26, 2024
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 25, 2024
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
Oct 22, 2024
René Boer, "Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives" (Valiz, 2023)
Oct 22, 2024
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, "Confucian Feminism: A Practical Ethic for Life" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Oct 20, 2024
Francisco Aboitiz, "A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
Oct 16, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 15, 2024
S4E9 The Fragility of China: A Conversation with Dennis Unkovic
Oct 09, 2024
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
Oct 09, 2024
Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 06, 2024
Michael J. Thompson, "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 05, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 04, 2024
Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
Oct 04, 2024
From Tribalism to Common Humanity: A Conversation with Dr. John Ellis
Oct 02, 2024
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade" (Verso, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024
Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024
Jason A. Josephson Storm, "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Sep 23, 2024
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
Sep 18, 2024
Danny Sriskandarajah, "Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World" (Headline Press, 2024)
Sep 17, 2024
Neil Van Leeuwen, "Religion As Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 17, 2024
Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 16, 2024
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Sep 13, 2024
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
Sep 10, 2024
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 09, 2024
Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 08, 2024
Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Sep 07, 2024
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
Sep 04, 2024
Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 02, 2024
John V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
Aug 29, 2024
Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 29, 2024
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
Aug 28, 2024
Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
Aug 24, 2024
Devonya N. Havis, "Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Aug 20, 2024
Sudhir Kakar, "The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations" (Karnac, 2024)
Aug 17, 2024
Stephen Pinfield, "Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 17, 2024
Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
Aug 17, 2024
Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024)
Aug 15, 2024
Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 10, 2024
The GiveWell Method
Aug 07, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 07, 2024
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Aug 06, 2024
Shai Held, "Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life" (FSG, 2024)
Aug 05, 2024
Ellie Laks, "Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between" (New World Library, 2024)
Aug 02, 2024
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 31, 2024
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 28, 2024
Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread: How Women Shaped the Course of Ancient History" (Viking, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024
David E. Kaiser, “The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy” (Harvard UP, 2008)
Jul 22, 2024
Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 21, 2024
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Jul 18, 2024
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 17, 2024
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Abrahamic Vernacular" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 16, 2024
Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
Jul 09, 2024
Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Jul 06, 2024
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 05, 2024
Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Jul 04, 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 02, 2024
John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 26, 2024
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
Jun 24, 2024
Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 22, 2024
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jun 19, 2024
Daniel Scott Souleles et al., "People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2024
Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 15, 2024
Gordon C. Chang, "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 14, 2024
Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024
Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024
Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)
Jun 08, 2024
Mark Robert Rank, "The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 04, 2024
AI and the Humanities: Nina Beguš DIscusses "Artificial Humanities"
Jun 03, 2024
Weh Yeoh, "Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence" (Koan Press, 2023)
Jun 02, 2024
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 28, 2024
Bernardo Kastrup, "Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's Only Plausible Metaphysics" (Iff Books, 2024)
May 24, 2024
Mark Moyar, "Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968" (Encounter, 2023)
May 22, 2024
Hippokratis Kiaris, "The End of the Western Civilization?: The Intellectual Journey of Humanity to Adulthood" (Vernon Press, 2022)
May 11, 2024
Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
May 10, 2024
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 05, 2024
J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 01, 2024
Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 30, 2024
Teri Ann Finneman et al., "Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journalism in the US and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
Apr 25, 2024
Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 25, 2024
Matt Qvortrup, "The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics" (CEU Press, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Seth D. Kaplan, "Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Apr 14, 2024
Eric Schwitzgebel, "The Weirdness of the World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 10, 2024
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice" (FSG, 2021)
Apr 10, 2024
Matthieu Grandpierron, "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2024)
Apr 02, 2024
Building the Future Buddha: A Discussion with Jundho Cohen
Mar 31, 2024
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024
David E. Sutton, "Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples" (Berghahn, 2021)
Mar 28, 2024
Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
Karl Widerquist, "Universal Basic Income" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 22, 2024
Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Mar 20, 2024
Myisha Cherry, "Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Travis Rieder, "Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices" (Dutton, 2024)
Mar 13, 2024
Michael Poulshock, "Power Structures in International Politics" (Low 8, 2023)
Mar 05, 2024
Joseph Cone, "Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 03, 2024
Poppy Wilde, "Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 02, 2024
Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2024
Vernon James Schubel, "Teaching Humanity: An Alternative Introduction to Islam" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Feb 27, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
Feb 26, 2024
Jeffrey D. Long, "Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific" (MDPI Books, 2019)
Feb 22, 2024
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Feb 22, 2024
Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 21, 2024
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2024
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 18, 2024
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Feb 14, 2024
Lehasa Moloi, "Developing Africa?: New Horizons with Afrocentricity" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Feb 12, 2024
Seth Zuiho Segall, "The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism" (Equinox, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Feb 07, 2024
Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 04, 2024
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 03, 2024
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 01, 2024
Jon Paul Sydnor and Anthony J. Watson, "Nondualism: An Interreligious Exploration" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024
Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)
Jan 23, 2024
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024
The Future of Ireland: Kevin Meagher on Why a United Ireland is Inevitable
Jan 17, 2024
Can A.I. Mean?
Jan 13, 2024
John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jan 10, 2024
Krista K. Thomason, "Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 10, 2024
Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)
Jan 08, 2024
Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
Jan 05, 2024
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Jan 02, 2024
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
Jan 02, 2024
Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 01, 2024
Kevin Hood Gary, "Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 29, 2023
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023
Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, "Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023
André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
Dec 23, 2023
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
Dec 09, 2023
This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen
Dec 08, 2023
James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)
Dec 06, 2023
Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 05, 2023
Too Much Communication?
Dec 02, 2023
Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 27, 2023
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)
Nov 27, 2023
Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards)
Nov 23, 2023
Plantationocene
Nov 17, 2023
Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)
Nov 15, 2023
Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
Nov 14, 2023
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Nov 05, 2023
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
Nov 03, 2023
Daniele Lorenzini, "The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 01, 2023
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 30, 2023
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023
Mutual Aid and the Anarchist Radical Imagination
Oct 11, 2023
Swati Srivastava, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 09, 2023
The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts
Oct 09, 2023
Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 08, 2023
S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Oct 06, 2023
Ronna Detrick, "Rewriting Eve: Claiming Women's Sacred Stories As Our Own" (She Writes Press, 2023)
Oct 03, 2023
The Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng Huang
Oct 02, 2023
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Oct 01, 2023
Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)
Sep 29, 2023
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023
Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt, "Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023
Bryan Rennie, "An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 16, 2023
Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Adam Toon, "Mind As Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023
Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)
Sep 09, 2023
Richard Sclove, "Escaping Maya's Palace: Decoding an Ancient Myth to Heal the Hidden Madness of Modern Civilization" (Karavelle Press, 2022)
Sep 09, 2023
Hans Van Eyghen, "The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 01, 2023
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
Aug 31, 2023
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023
Sara Protasi, "The Philosophy of Envy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2023
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Meditating Three Minutes a Day: A Conversation with Richard Dixey
Aug 22, 2023
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023
Stephen Aron, "Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2023
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
Aug 15, 2023
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
Aug 14, 2023
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Aug 11, 2023
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now" (Routledge, 2023)
Aug 11, 2023
Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)
Aug 11, 2023
Idolatry and Idle Hands (with Jacob Howland)
Aug 10, 2023
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 09, 2023
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)
Aug 06, 2023
Robot Futures
Aug 03, 2023
Alelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Aug 02, 2023
Chrisoula Andreou, "Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 01, 2023
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Jul 31, 2023
Zhihua Yao, "Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jul 30, 2023
Jade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jul 30, 2023
Benjamin Studebaker, "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 18, 2023
Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, "Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
Jul 14, 2023
Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Jul 12, 2023
Torin Alter, "The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russellian Monism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 10, 2023
Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 07, 2023
Kevin J. Elliott, "Democracy for Busy People" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jul 01, 2023
Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?
Jun 30, 2023
Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
Jun 29, 2023
Andy Karr, "Into the Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality" (Shambhala, 2023)
Jun 25, 2023
Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jun 24, 2023
Robert Falconer, "The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession" (Great Mystery Press, 2023)
Jun 23, 2023
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
Jun 21, 2023
Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 15, 2023
Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023
Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 13, 2023
Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023
Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 05, 2023
Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 04, 2023
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, "The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty" (Penguin, 2020)
Jun 02, 2023
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
May 31, 2023
Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
May 29, 2023
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 28, 2023
Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
May 28, 2023
After the Pill: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
May 23, 2023
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
May 21, 2023
James Poskett, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022)
May 21, 2023
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 20, 2023
The Origins of the Modern Self: A Conversation with Carl Trueman
May 18, 2023
Carol Graham, "The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023
Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 11, 2023
The Miraculous Mind (with Paul Bloom)
May 11, 2023
Ami Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 07, 2023
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
May 05, 2023
Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
May 05, 2023
Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
May 04, 2023
The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
Apr 28, 2023
Extraterrestrials
Apr 27, 2023
Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)
Apr 26, 2023
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem
Apr 25, 2023
Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 23, 2023
Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
Apr 23, 2023
Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Apr 21, 2023
Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
Apr 17, 2023
Paul Kenny, "Why Populism?: Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 17, 2023
David Rothenberg, "Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound" (Terra Nova Press, 2023)
Apr 04, 2023
Ben Shneiderman, "Human-Centered AI" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 04, 2023
Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 03, 2023
Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 01, 2023
Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 31, 2023
The Good Enough Life
Mar 30, 2023
Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alex Hinton, "Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Mar 29, 2023
Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 23, 2023
Tobias Tanton, "Corporeal Theology: The Nature of Theological Understanding in Light of Embodied Cognition" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 22, 2023
The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden
Mar 22, 2023
David LePoire, "Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities" (2020)
Mar 22, 2023
Choice Architecture
Mar 07, 2023
Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)
Mar 05, 2023
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Mar 03, 2023
Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Feb 19, 2023
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023
Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 16, 2023
Karyne E. Messina, "Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 21, 2023
The Myth of Modernity: Is There a Bigger Picture?
Jan 20, 2023
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Jan 13, 2023
Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023
Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 10, 2023
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 03, 2023
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 30, 2022
Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022
Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 27, 2022
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
Dec 22, 2022
Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed
Dec 22, 2022
Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 20, 2022
Batja Mesquita, "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" (Norton, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Dec 12, 2022
Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
Dec 09, 2022
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022
Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2022
Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022
Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022
Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)
Nov 18, 2022
Lowell Gustafson, "Religion, Space and Deep Time" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 08, 2022
Željka Matijasević, "The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death" (Lexington, 2021)
Nov 07, 2022
Gerd Gigerenzer, "How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 03, 2022
Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Oct 27, 2022
Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson, "Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future" (HBR Press, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022
Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" (Mariner Books, 2020)
Oct 19, 2022
Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Neil Levy, "Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 10, 2022
Gabriel Levy, "Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022
Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
Adam Adatto Sandel, "Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 06, 2022
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 04, 2022
Samo Tomšič, "The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy" (Walther Konig Verlag, 2019)
Sep 27, 2022
Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, "Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 15, 2022
Amber M. Trotter, "Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon: Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Sep 14, 2022
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Sep 09, 2022
Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
Sep 07, 2022
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Aug 24, 2022
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
Aug 23, 2022
The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
Aug 16, 2022
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Aug 16, 2022
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 16, 2022
Mark Solms, "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness" (Norton, 2021)
Aug 12, 2022
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 22, 2022
Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022
Maxwell Kennel, "Postsecular History: Political Theology and the Politics of Time" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jul 20, 2022
Siniša Malešević, "Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Jed Esty, "The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits" (Stanford Briefs, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
Adrienne Buller, "The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jul 05, 2022
Max Ajl, "A People's Green New Deal" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Jul 05, 2022
David Hunter, "On Believing: Being Right in a World of Possibilities" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 01, 2022
Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jun 27, 2022
Ryan North, "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Jun 27, 2022
Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney, "Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022
Christopher Blattman, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace" (Viking, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
Jonathan Crary, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" (Verso, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
Jun 21, 2022
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022
Michael Munger, "The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 15, 2022
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
Jun 14, 2022
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, "How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth" (Polity, 2022)
Jun 09, 2022
Catherine Besteman, "Militarized Global Apartheid" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jun 08, 2022
Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021)
Jun 07, 2022
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
Are We Entering a "Neo-Medieval" Era?: A Conversation with Greg Lewicki
Jun 03, 2022
Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
Jun 02, 2022
The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham
May 31, 2022
Yanis Varoufakis, "Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present" (Melville House, 2020)
May 30, 2022
Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World" (Oneworld, 2021)
May 30, 2022
Ilana M. Horwitz, "God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 30, 2022
Paul Morland, "Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers" (Picador, 2022)
May 25, 2022
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (Public Affairs, 2022)
May 18, 2022
The Future of Human Fertility: A Conversation with R. John Aitken
May 17, 2022
David M. Peña-Guzmán, "When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 17, 2022
Will Kinney, "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 16, 2022
Sam Tatam, "Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking Ancient Innovation to Solve Tomorrow's Challenges" (Harriman House, 2022)
May 11, 2022
Richard Schwartz, "No Bad Parts: How the Internal Family Systems Model Changes Everything" (Sounds True, 2021)
May 06, 2022
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 26, 2022
Pamela Hieronymi, "Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2022
Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
John A. List, "The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale" (Currency, 2022)
Apr 14, 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, "Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 05, 2022
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 04, 2022
Lene Andersen, "Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World" (Nordic Bildung, 2019)
Apr 01, 2022
W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, "Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus: New Directions for the Future Development of Humankind" (Routledge, 2019)
Apr 01, 2022
The Future of Rational Decision Making: A Discussion with Olivier Sibony
Mar 29, 2022
N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022
Oded Galor, "The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality" (Dutton Books, 2022)
Mar 22, 2022
Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022
The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
Mar 08, 2022
Daniel Chirot, "You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 07, 2022
Sean Kelly, "Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation" (Integral Imprint, 2020)
Feb 28, 2022
William R. Miller, "On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life" (Guilford, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022
Charles R. Shipan and Craig Volden, "Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 21, 2022
Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, "So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Feb 15, 2022
Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022
Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)
Jan 18, 2022
Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 07, 2022
Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)
Jan 04, 2022
Seth David Radwell, "American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation" (Greenleaf, 2021)
Dec 29, 2021
Andrew Zitcer, "Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Dec 28, 2021
Gabriel Yoran, "The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented Ontology" (Open Humanities Press, 2021)
Dec 24, 2021
Roger Mac Ginty, "Everyday Peace: How So-Called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021
Erin Cech, "The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Jeremy Lent, "The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe" (New Society, 2021)
Dec 14, 2021
Jason Lyall, "Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2021
Paul Collier, "The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties" (Harper, 2019)
Nov 30, 2021
Eva von Redecker, "Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021
Josep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021
Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding, "Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth" (Zone Book, 2021)
Nov 16, 2021
Steve Katsouros, "Come to Believe: How Jesuits Are Reinventing Education (Again)" (Orbis, 2017)
Nov 15, 2021
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021
Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021)
Nov 10, 2021
Tony Nader, "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness: Simple Answers to the Big Questions of Life" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
Nov 08, 2021
Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton, "Building the New Economy: Data As Capital" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
Paulina Ochoa Espejo, "On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2021
Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale, "The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Marco Dondi, "Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose" (Fast Company Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Claudia Goldin, "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021
Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)
Oct 15, 2021
Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
Oct 05, 2021
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Oct 04, 2021
Joshua Preiss, "Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century" (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
Sep 29, 2021
Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019)
Sep 27, 2021
Caitlin Petre, "All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 10, 2021
Juha Kaakinen: Homelessness, a Solvable Problem
Sep 08, 2021
Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
Sep 08, 2021
Hans Gersbach, "Redesigning Democracy: More Ideas for Better Rules" (Springer, 2018)
Sep 03, 2021
Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
Sep 02, 2021
Benjamin Ho, "Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 25, 2021
Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 19, 2021
David Potter, "Disruption: Why Things Change" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 12, 2021
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, "When Maps Become the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aug 10, 2021
Chiara Marletto, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals" (Viking, 2021)
Aug 09, 2021
James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2021
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021
Nichola Raihani, "The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
Jul 12, 2021
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
Jul 05, 2021
Tyson Yunkaporta, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" (HarperOne, 2021)
Jun 30, 2021
Hélène Landemore, "Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 28, 2021
Margaret MacMillan, "War: How Conflict Shaped Us" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 28, 2021
Susan Crane, "Nothing Happened: A History" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, "Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Jun 15, 2021
Tom Eisenmann, "Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success" (Currency, 2021)
Jun 08, 2021
Jonathan Rauch, "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth" (Brookings, 2021)
Jun 07, 2021
James M. Banner Jr., "The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jun 04, 2021
Gregg D. Caruso, "Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 01, 2021
Skylar Tibbits, "Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jun 01, 2021
Shai Reshef: Founding President, University of the People
May 31, 2021
Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)
May 26, 2021
William D. Nordhaus, "The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World" (Princeton UP, 2021)
May 24, 2021
Bobby C. Lee, "The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You" (McGraw-Hill Education, 2021)
May 18, 2021
David R. Boyd, "The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World" (ECW Press, 2017)
May 18, 2021
Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 17, 2021
Simon Critchley, "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us" (Vintage, 2020)
May 14, 2021
Tim Jackson, "Post Growth: Life after Capitalism" (Polity, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020)
May 03, 2021
Melvin Konner, "Believers: Faith in Human Nature" (Norton, 2019)
Apr 26, 2021
Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Apr 21, 2021
Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
Apr 19, 2021
Philip N. Howard, "Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives" (Yale UP, 2020)
Apr 12, 2021
Frank Ruda, "Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism" (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
Apr 12, 2021
Avi Loeb, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
Apr 06, 2021
Edward Ashford Lee, "The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 02, 2021
Luke Russell, "Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
Eugenia Cheng, "x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" (Basic Book, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
John Durham Peters et al., "Action at a Distance" (Meson Press, 2020)
Mar 26, 2021
Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2021
Jeremy DeSilva, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human" (Harper, 2021)
Mar 12, 2021
Roland T. Rust and Ming-Hui Huang, "The Feeling Economy: How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era of Empathy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Mar 04, 2021
Ronald J. Deibert, "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" (House of Anansi, 2020)
Feb 26, 2021
Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020)
Jan 26, 2021
Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jan 25, 2021
R. A. Woldoff and R. C. Litchfield, "Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 21, 2021
Michael J. Sandel, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" (FSG, 2020)
Jan 08, 2021
Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 06, 2021
Robert Baker, "The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 06, 2021
Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Dec 24, 2020
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020
Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
Carl R. Trueman, "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution" (Crossway, 2020)
Dec 07, 2020
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)
Dec 03, 2020
Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Religion, and the Search for Truth" (Orbis Books, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
Andrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 04, 2020
Michael E. McCullough, "The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 29, 2020
Philip Jenkins, "Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions" (Baylor UP, 2020)
Oct 27, 2020
Joan Scott, "On the Judgment of History" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Oct 15, 2020
Margaret Heffernan, "Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020
Jeremy England, "Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 05, 2020
R. Pollin and N. Chomsky, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso, 2020)
Sep 15, 2020
David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life" (MIT Press, 2020)
Sep 10, 2020
Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger" (Portfolio, 2020)
Sep 08, 2020
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 04, 2020
Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 19, 2020
Christopher Newfield, "The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Aug 12, 2020
Saqib Iqbal Qureshi, "The Broken Contract: Making Our Democracies Accountable, Representative, and Less Wasteful" (Lioncrest, 2020)
Jul 31, 2020
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 01, 2020
Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming" (HarperOne, 2020)
Jun 30, 2020
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2020
Nathan G. Alexander, "Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914" (NYU Press, 2019)
Jun 17, 2020
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)
Jun 04, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) )
May 11, 2020
Yael Tamir, "Why Nationalism?" (Princeton UP, 2019)
May 04, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Wade Roush, "Extraterrestrials" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 27, 2020
Valerie Hansen, "The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World -- and Globalization Began" (Scribner, 2020)
Apr 24, 2020
Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2020
K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal" (Verso, 2019)
Apr 14, 2020
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Apr 01, 2020
Sir John Redwood, "We Don't Believe You: Why Populists and the Establishment See the World Differently" (Bite-Sized Books, 2019)
Mar 31, 2020
Samuel Gregg, "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization" (Gateway, 2019)
Mar 31, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Olivier Roy, "Is Europe Christian?" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 03, 2020
Douglas Murray, "The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity" (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019)
Feb 25, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
Lee Drutman, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 2020
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
Feb 12, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Neil McArthur, "Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications" (MIT Press, 2017)
Jan 09, 2020
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nov 20, 2019
Richard Robb, "Willful: How We Choose What We Do" (Yale UP, 2019)
Nov 18, 2019
What are Empires and Why do they Matter?
Nov 14, 2019
Robert Talisse, "Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its Place" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 11, 2019
John Gribbin, "Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World" (Icon Books, 2019)
Nov 05, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′t Women Rule the World?: Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices" (Sage, 2019)
Oct 09, 2019
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
Sep 19, 2019
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
Sep 09, 2019
Charles King, "Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century" (Doubleday, 2019)
Sep 04, 2019
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Aug 09, 2019
Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Aug 07, 2019
Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies" (Island Press, 2018)
Aug 05, 2019
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
Jul 31, 2019
John Quiggen, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jul 29, 2019
David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" (W. W. Norton, 2018)
Jul 26, 2019
Paul Sutter, "Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence" (Prometheus, 2018)
Jul 18, 2019
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 08, 2019
Yuen Yuen Ang, "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap" (Cornell UP, 2016)
Jul 02, 2019
Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princeton UP, 2017)
Jul 02, 2019
Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 01, 2019
Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory" (Atlas Publishing, 2019)
Jun 28, 2019
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 26, 2019
Michael Ruse, "A Meaning to Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 10, 2019
Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 31, 2019
Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Prevention" (RAND Corporation, 2019)
May 30, 2019
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 27, 2019
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democracies Die" (Crown, 2018)
May 23, 2019
Crystal Abidin, "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online" (Emerald Publishing, 2018)
Apr 29, 2019
Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World" (MIT Press, 2018)
Apr 18, 2019
Laurence Cox, "Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Apr 08, 2019
Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, “Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Apr 03, 2019
Michael Hannon, "What is the Point of Knowledge? A Function-First Epistemology" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Apr 01, 2019
Jules Evans, "The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience" (Canongate Books, 2017)
Mar 28, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Janis Powers, "Health Care: Meet The American Dream" (River Grove Books, 2018)
Mar 04, 2019
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Feb 26, 2019
Jonathan Birch, "The Philosophy of Social Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 11, 2019
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 04, 2019
Leigh Goodmark, "Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence" (U California Press, 2018)
Feb 04, 2019
Gary Metcalf, "Social Systems and Design" (Springer Verlag, 2014)
Feb 04, 2019
John Torpey, "The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Jan 30, 2019
Maria Kronfeldner, "What's Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept" (MIT Press, 2018)
Jan 15, 2019
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Steven Shaviro, “Discognition” (Repeater Books, 2016)
Nov 20, 2018
Paul Cartledge, “Democracy: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2016)
May 14, 2018
B.J. Mendelson, “Privacy: And How to Get It Back” (Curious Reads, 2017)
May 03, 2018
Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Mar 22, 2018
Thomas Mira y Lopez, “The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead” (Counterpoint Press, 2017)
Feb 28, 2018
Michael Ruse, “On Purpose” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Feb 12, 2018
Andrew Keen, “How To Fix The Future” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018)
Feb 06, 2018
Christian B. Miller, “The Character Gap: How Good Are We?” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 13, 2018
Kate Manne, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2017
Owen Flanagan, “The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017
Zek Valkyrie, “Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline” (Praeger, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017
Jo Littler, “Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility” (Routledge, 2017)
Nov 17, 2017
Theodore Vial, “Modern Religion, Modern Race” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Nov 06, 2017
Andrew Copson, “Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Nov 03, 2017
Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski, “Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Oct 31, 2017
James L. Kugel, “The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Oct 23, 2017
Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017)
Sep 19, 2017
Ron Edwards, “The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 25, 2017
Robert Wright, “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
Aug 25, 2017
Brian Clegg, “The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe” (Icon Books, 2017)
Jun 29, 2017
Ronald A. Lindsay, “The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can’t Tell Us What to Do” (Pitchstone Publishing, 2014)
Jun 23, 2017
Beau Lotto, “Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently” (Hatchette Books, 2017)
May 30, 2017
Jon Mills, “Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality” (Routledge, 2016)
May 21, 2017
Ralph Young, “Dissent: The History of an American Idea” (NYU Press, 2015)
May 19, 2017
Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
May 18, 2017
Carrie Jenkins, “What Love is: And What it Could Be” (Basic Books, 2017)
Apr 25, 2017
Benjamin Hale, “The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature” (MIT Press, 2016)
Apr 15, 2017
Cristina Bicchieri, “Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Apr 01, 2017
Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco, “The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture” (Routledge, 2016)
Mar 27, 2017
Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 19, 2017
Berit Brogaard, “On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Feb 13, 2017
David Rosen and Aaron Santesso, “The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood” (Yale UP, 2013)
Feb 09, 2017
Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, eds “Digital Sociologies” (Policy Press, 2016)
Feb 09, 2017
John Hadley, “Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals” (Lexington Books, 2015)
Feb 09, 2017
Alan J. Levinovitz, “The Limits of Religious Tolerance” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
Jan 14, 2017
Nicholas A. John, “The Age of Sharing” (Polity Press, 2016)
Jan 06, 2017
Matthew MacWilliams, “The Rise of Trump: America’s Authoritarian Spring” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
Oct 22, 2016
McKenzie Wark, “Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene” (Verso, 2015)
Oct 10, 2016
Martha Nussbaum, “Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 01, 2016
Samantha Barbas, “Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America” (Stanford Law Books, 2016)
Aug 25, 2016
Peter Harrison, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)
Jul 21, 2016
Lance deHaven-Smith, “Conspiracy Theory in America” (U of Texas Press, 2014)
Jul 01, 2016
Ho-fung Hung, “The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World” (Columbia UP, 2016)
May 18, 2016
Emily Troscianko, “Kafka’s Cognitive Realism” (Routledge, 2014)
May 02, 2016
Alfie Bown, “Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism” (Zero Books, 2015)
Apr 18, 2016
Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman, “Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Apr 18, 2016
Heather Boushey, “Finding Time: The Economies of Work-Life Conflict” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Apr 04, 2016
Simon Critchley, “ABC of Impossibility” (Univocal Publishing, 2015)
Mar 07, 2016
Amy Allen, “The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 07, 2016
Timothy Snyder, “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning” (Tim Duggan Books, 2015)
Jan 28, 2016
Jennifer Mittelstadt, “The Rise of the Military Welfare State” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 10, 2015
Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Dec 07, 2015
Jason W. Moore, “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” (Verso, 2015)
Dec 03, 2015
Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Dec 01, 2015
Philip Roscoe, “A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel” (Penguin, 2015)
Nov 19, 2015
Nancy Bauer, “How to Do Things With Pornography” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Nov 15, 2015
Lisa Tessman, “Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Nov 01, 2015
Colin Milburn, “Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter” (Duke UP, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015
Jeffery S. Gurock, “The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967” (Rutgers UP, 2015)
Oct 22, 2015
Jon Birger, “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” (Workman Publishing Company, 2015)
Oct 15, 2015
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Oct 07, 2015
Eugene Thacker, “Horror of Philosophy” (Zero Book, 2011-2015)
Sep 28, 2015
Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)
Sep 17, 2015
Cass Sunstein, “Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sep 01, 2015
Christine Desan, “Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Aug 25, 2015
Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Aug 19, 2015
William Davies, “The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being” (Verso, 2015)
Aug 18, 2015
Gyanendra Pandey, “A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Aug 14, 2015
Craig Martin, “Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Aug 04, 2015
John H. Walton, “The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate” (IVP Academic, 2015)
Jul 24, 2015
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jul 21, 2015
William Elliott III and Melinda Lewis, “Real College Debt Crisis” (Praeger, 2015)
Jul 20, 2015
Kocku von Stuckrad, “The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000” (De Gruyter, 2014)
Jul 06, 2015
Iain W. Provan, “Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters” (Baylor UP, 2014)
Jul 06, 2015
James Laine, “Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History” (U of California Press, 2015)
Jun 23, 2015
Nick Sousanis, “Unflattening” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jun 12, 2015
J. Bronsteen, C. Buccafusco, and J. S. Masur, “Happiness and the Law” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
May 12, 2015
Robin Grier and Jerry F. Hough, “The Long Process of Development” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
May 11, 2015
Eben Kirksey, “The Multispecies Salon” (Duke University Press, 2014)
May 10, 2015
Thom van Dooren, “Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Apr 17, 2015
Robert W. Gehl, “Reverse Engineering Social Media” (Temple UP, 2014)
Apr 13, 2015
Robert Putnam, “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” (Simon and Schuster, 2015)
Mar 23, 2015
Rick Strassman, “DMT and the Soul of Prophecy” (Park Street Press, 2014)
Mar 15, 2015
Edmund Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” (
Mar 11, 2015
Alexander R. Galloway, “Laruelle: Against the Digital” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Mar 05, 2015
Daniel Cloud, “The Domestication of Language” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Dec 16, 2014
Suzanne Mettler, “Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream” (Basic Books, 2014)
Jul 09, 2014
Nick Smith, “Justice through Apologies: Remorse, Reform, and Punishment” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jul 02, 2014
William Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, “The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of Religion” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Jun 27, 2014
Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova, “Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis” (MIT, 2014)
Jun 19, 2014
Austin Sarat, “Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Jun 18, 2014
Morris B. Hoffman, “The Punisher’s Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 11, 2014
Marci A. Hamilton, “God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 07, 2014
John L. Brooke, “Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 04, 2014
Vincent Mosco, “To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World” (Paradigm Publishers, 2014)
May 29, 2014
danah boyd, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” (Yale UP, 2014)
May 12, 2014
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
May 05, 2014
Benjamin Radcliff, “The Political Economy of Happiness” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
May 01, 2014
Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” (Henry Holt, 2014)
Apr 19, 2014
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Apr 18, 2014
Michael Strevens, “Tychomancy: Inferring Probability from Causal Structure” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Apr 15, 2014
Nick Yee, “The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-and How They Don’t” (Yale UP, 2014)
Apr 11, 2014
Nathan Schneider. “God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet” (University of California Press, 2013)
Apr 07, 2014
John R. Gillis, “The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Feb 26, 2014
John Hibbing et al., “Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences” (Routledge, 2013)
Feb 24, 2014
Joseph Uscinski, “The People’s News: Media, Politics, and the Demands of Capitalism” (NYU Press, 2014)
Feb 08, 2014
Brent Nongbri, “Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept” (Yale University Press, 2013)
Jan 18, 2014
Helene Landemore, “Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many” (Princeton UP, 2012)
Nov 01, 2013
A. David Redish, “The Mind Within the Brain” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Oct 17, 2013
Gayle Kaufman, “Superdads: How Fathers Balance Work and Family in the 21st Century” (NYU Press, 2013)
Sep 19, 2013
Mary Eberstadt, “How the West Really Lost God” (Templeton Press, 2013)
Sep 07, 2013
Jerome Kagan, “The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development” (Basic Books, 2013)
Sep 02, 2013
Hedrick Smith, “Who Stole the American Dream?” (Random House, 2012)
Aug 23, 2013
Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, “Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Aug 09, 2013
Jonathan V. Last, “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Crisis” (Encounter Books, 2013)
Jul 25, 2013
Frans De Waal, “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among Primates” (Norton, 2013)
Jul 17, 2013
John O. McGinnis, “Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology” (Princeton UP, 2013)
Jul 10, 2013
Colin Gordon, “Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality” (Institute for Policy Studies, 2013)
Jun 25, 2013
Nicco Mele, “The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath” (St. Martin’s Press, 2013)
Jun 24, 2013
Clive Hamilton, “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering” (Yale UP, 2013)
Jun 20, 2013
Jonathan Rauch, “Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul” (The Atlantic Books, 2013)
Jun 07, 2013
Prasannan Parthasarathi, “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Jun 07, 2013
Elizabeth H. Pleck, “Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution” (Chicago UP, 2012)
May 31, 2013
Dan Kennedy, “The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age” (UMass Press, 2013)
May 29, 2013
Douglas Rushkoff, “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” (Current, 2013)
May 21, 2013
Christian Caryl, “Strange Rebels:1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” (Basic, 2013)
May 20, 2013
James Dawes, “Evil Men” (Harvard UP, 2013)
May 16, 2013
Thane Rosenbaum, “Payback: The Case for Revenge” (Chicago UP, 2013)
May 08, 2013
Steven J. Harper, “The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis” (Basic Books, 2013)
May 01, 2013
Jared Diamond, “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?” (Viking, 2012)
Apr 25, 2013
Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)
Apr 22, 2013
Neil Gross, “Why are Professors Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care?” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Apr 08, 2013
Stephen T. Asma, “Against Fairness” (University of Chicago, 2013)
Apr 05, 2013
Robert W. McChesney, “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (The New Press, 2013)
Apr 04, 2013
Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, “How Much is Enough: Money and the Good Life” (Other Press, 2012)
Mar 18, 2013
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, “American Umpire” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Mar 12, 2013
Peter Gray, “Free to Learn” (Basic Books, 2013)
Mar 05, 2013
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr., “Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help” (Basic Books, 2012)
Feb 22, 2013
Lawrence M. Krauss, “A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing” (Atria, 2012)
Feb 13, 2013
John Wood, “Creating Room to Read” (Viking Press, 2013)
Feb 04, 2013
Alec Foege, "The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great" (Basic Books, 2013)
Jan 17, 2013
David Linen, “The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good” (Viking, 2011)
Jun 26, 2012
David Wolman, “The End Of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers, and the Coming Cashless Society” (Da Capo Press, 2012)
Jun 08, 2012
Mark Stephen Meadows, “We Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact” (Lyons Press, 2011)
Jul 06, 2011
Jonathan Metzl, “The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease” (Beacon Press, 2010)
May 04, 2011
Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution” (FSG, 2011)
May 03, 2011
Fred Spier, “Big History and the Future of Humanity” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Oct 01, 2010
Azar Gat, “War in Human Civilization” (Oxford UP, 2006)
Jul 15, 2010
P. Bingham and J. Souza, “Death From a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe” (BookSurge, 2009)
Apr 30, 2010
Gregory Cochran, “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” (Basic, 2009)
Mar 06, 2009