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Andrew Scull: On the response to mass shootings
America’s right-wing politicians have developed a choreographed response to the horrors of mass shootings. In the aftermath of Wednesday’s massacre of the innocents, President Trump stuck resolutely to...
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Elizabeth A. Dauncey & Sonny Larsson on Plants That Kill
Have you ever wondered which are the most poisonous plants in the world, why they produce toxins, and what those toxins are? Are you interested in the ingenious ways that humans have found to exploit...
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Rachel Sherman: How New York’s wealthy parents try to raise ‘unentitled’ kids
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. Wealthy parents seem to have it made when it comes to raising their children. They can offer their kids...
View ArticleSarah Caro: University Press Redux Conference
Sarah Caro is the Editorial Director in Social Science at Princeton University Press, based in our UK office. Working for university presses most of my career, I have never really questioned their...
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Hilda Sabato: The dilemmas of political representation
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the word “populism” has gained increasing space in the media, initially associated with political events in Latin America. The term is far from new, but...
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Michael Brooke on Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
Seabirds evoke the spirit of the earth’s wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and nest on beautiful and remote islands that humans rarely visit. Thanks...
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Robert Wuthnow on The Left Behind
What is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more...
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Christie Henry talks with Hanna Gray for International Women’s Day
This post is a transcribed excerpt from a forthcoming Open Stacks podcast interview. I couldn’t be more fortunate to be in the company of Hanna Gray, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of...
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Katrina van Grouw on the difficulty of answering a simple question
Artist/scientist/author/illustrator… To me, names are important, and it’s vital to be described by one that fits. Ironically it seems to be my lot in life to evade classification. Throughout Women’s...
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Robert Irwin on Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world—a genius who ranks as one of the world’s great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima,...
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Michael Brenner explains why a Jewish State is “not like any other state”
Is Israel a state like any other or is it unique? As Michael Brenner argues in In Search of Israel, the Zionists attempted to put an end to the millennia-old history of the Jews as the archetypical...
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Julian Zelizer on The Presidency of Barack Obama
Barack Obama’s election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled...
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Keith Whittington: The kids are alright
It has rapidly become a common trope that the current crop of college students belong to a generation of “snowflakes.” Unusually sensitive, unusually intolerant, the kids these days are seen by some...
View ArticleMartin Rees: Stephen Hawking — An Appreciation
Soon after I enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge University in 1964, I encountered a fellow student, two years ahead of me in his studies; he was unsteady on his feet and spoke with great...
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Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now
There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely...
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Dr. John C. Hulsman: Will the US ever escape the Losing Gambler Syndrome in...
The Losing Gambler Syndrome is a fact of the human condition that casino magnates have come to well understand. When someone loses big at the tables, almost always they have an overwhelming urge to...
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Jan Assmann on The Invention of Religion
The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading...
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Mark Serreze: Becoming A Scientist
In honor of Earth Day, Princeton University Press will be highlighting the contributions that scientists make to our understanding of the world around us through a series of blog posts written by some...
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The Royal Institution: Science Lives Here
by Katie Lewis and Keira Andrews The Royal Institution is a scientific gem in the heart of London. It was founded in 1799 by leading British scientists of the age with the aim of bringing technology...
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Jane Hurwitz on Butterfly Gardening
Butterflies are regarded by many as canaries in our ecological coal mine: they provide visual signals indicating the relative health and diversity of a habitat. Improving our local fragmented and...
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