David Isenberg is posting excerpts from Laura A. Dickinson‘s Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs on the Huffington Post as a lead-up to his review. Be sure to follow David for more updates.
Happy New Year from YUP! To start the year off on the right foot, we will be exploring the theme of resolutions for the month of January. Whether old or new, resolutions aim to bring finality, both to foster new beginnings and bring old stories to a close. Like Janus
In 2013 a new edition of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) will be published, and the American Psychiatric Association has already begun to prepare it. A number of mental health professionals are warning that the expanded diagnoses are leading to a world in which almost no
This past Sunday “The Way We Live Now,” a regular feature in the New York Times Magazine, covered the effects of the increase in Americans’ inclination towards thrift in these recent years: specifically the cycle of deleveraging, which is a contraction of credit as individuals begin to spend and borrow
Last week’s announcement that Dubai World, a corporation owned by the government of the Arab Emirate known for its palm tree-shaped housing developments, would restructure $26 billion in debt sent shockwaves through the financial world. Today, Dubai stocks continued to fall precipitously, indicating that the worst may not yet be
A recent unexpected celebrity endorsement is just the latest in a string of successes for Yale’s Icons of America series, which presents brief, lively volumes on our nation’s major cultural touchstones. Past works have covered the Empire State Building, Gone with the Wind, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have
Without a doubt, last week was a difficult one for the newspaper industry. With the Tribune Company filing for bankruptcy, the Miami Herald up for sale, and even the vaunted New York Times taking out a $225 million loan against its new Manhattan offices, it’s hard to imagine what the
In a recent New York Times article, legendary investor, founder of the Vanguard Group, and Yale Press author John Bogle insisted that now is the time to buy stocks. Bogle argued that those who buy now, while stock prices are cheap, will be sure to expect profits in the future.
Last night’s debate was yet another reminder that the current economic crisis continues to weigh heavily on the American mind. And, as questions about the economy keep Obama and McCain on their toes, Yale University Press author Steve Fraser has been busy commenting on the crisis both in print and
New York Magazine got their hands on an advance copy of Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton. They decided to do an early preview of the exhibition, which premiered at the Met this past Wednesday. New York Magazine called Superheroes a “genuinely cool book,” and found