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July 7, 2011
in Current Affairs, Economics, Political Science

Globalization Is Not America’s Most Wanted

July 7, 2011
in Current Affairs, Economics, Political Science

The “economy” has practically become a dirty word now. It’s usually the answer to the question, “What issue concerns Americans the most?” and has led to frantic searches for explanations. Whatever the “real” cause, one of the major scapegoats for the “Great Crisis,” as Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Kati Suominen call it, is globalization. In their book Globalization at Risk: Challenges to Finance and Trade, they argue that while globalization had a role in creating our current situation, we don’t have to send the Navy SEALs after it.

July 1, 2011
in Current Affairs, Humanities, Technology, Yale Press Podcast

A New Home for the Yale Press Log

July 1, 2011
in Current Affairs, Humanities, Technology, Yale Press Podcast

Welcome to the new home of the Yale Press Log on Wordpress.com! In July, the theme is Global and International Studies, and after the first half of 2011, there is plenty to recount. New books on Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, and southern Africa, by Tim Bird & Alex Marshall, Victoria Clark, Tarek Osman, and Stephen Chan are at the center of our political discussions, and Leila Ahmed’s new history, A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America surrounds current controversies on Islamic women’s dress.

June 30, 2011
in Current Affairs, Humanities, Political Science, Social Science

Tonight on The Colbert Report: Timothy Garton Ash

June 30, 2011
in Current Affairs, Humanities, Political Science, Social Science

This evening, Stephen Colbert will talk with Timothy Garton Ash, author of Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report. Garton Ash, professor of European studies at Oxford, has written extensively on modern political history, notably covering Communism and the 1989 Revolutions

May 20, 2011
in American History, Current Affairs, Philosophy, Social Science

Elie Wiesel’s Gift to Young America

May 20, 2011
in American History, Current Affairs, Philosophy, Social Science

Elie Wiesel, the prolific writer and humanitarian, needs little introduction. For the last half-century, his activism and advocacy for human rights have given him unparallel notoriety—some even credit him with our present understanding of the term “Holocaust”—not to mention his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize and the ubiquity of Night and

May 6, 2011
in Current Affairs, East Asian Studies, Economics, Social Science

China’s Red Queen

May 6, 2011
in Current Affairs, East Asian Studies, Economics, Social Science

Headlines on China’s innovation have been popping up this week, as the world wonders what the next big economic development will be for the country, which recently surpassed Japan for the #2 rank in GDP. Both The Economist and Reuters have run stories taking insight from a new book, The

May 3, 2011
in Current Affairs

YUP’s Fall 2011 Catalog!

May 3, 2011
in Current Affairs

YUP’s Fall 2011 catalog, covering new books to be published from August 2011 to January 2012 is now available online! See our forthcoming books in biography, art, architecture, history, literature, psychology, environmenal studies, featuring authors such as David Margolick, Melissa Harris-Perry, Tim Jeal, Paul Starr, Nigel Warburton, Garry Wills, and

May 3, 2011
in Current Affairs, Middle East Studies, Military History, Political Science, Social Science

Ahmed Rashid Talks about Osama bin Laden

May 3, 2011
in Current Affairs, Middle East Studies, Military History, Political Science, Social Science

At the time of the 9/11 attacks, few people in America had heard of the Taliban. And in 2000, when Ahmed Rashid wrote the bestselling Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, based on his experiences as a journalist covering the civil war in Afghanistan for twenty years,

April 7, 2011
in Current Affairs, Humanities, Law, Philosophy

Architectural Justice

April 7, 2011
in Current Affairs, Humanities, Law, Philosophy

Continuing with our look at architectural spaces as constructs of the human imagination, a new book, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms, by Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, gives special insight into the ways in which Justice has publicly appeared and influenced our own democratic

April 5, 2011
in Current Affairs

YUP’s Book of the Year Award Finalists

April 5, 2011
in Current Affairs

Four of YUP’s titles are nominees for the 2010 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards: Houdini: Art and Magic, by Brooke Kamin Rapaport; Radical Judaism, by Arthur Green; Spider Silk, by Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig; and The Anthology of Rap, edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois. Congratulations

April 1, 2011
in Current Affairs, Economics, Philosophy, Political Science

Administrative Tyranny: Marx’s Misguided View of the State

April 1, 2011
in Current Affairs, Economics, Philosophy, Political Science

The discussion heats up for Why Marx Was Right at Bensonian.org: Andrew Walker, contributor to Mere Orthodoxy, gets into the claim that “Marxism believes in an all-powerful state.” Andrew Walker Terry Eagleton insists that Marx’s understanding of the state has been misunderstood. Objecting to the claim that the state leads