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Matthias Doepke & Fabrizio Zilibotti: The economics of motherhood
In times of heightened economic anxiety, for many American families the celebration of Mother’s Day this weekend will provide a welcome respite from the stress of everyday life. At least for this one...
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Eric Posner & Glen Weyl on Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and...
Many blame today’s economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking—and pretty much all...
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C.C. Tsai on ‘The Analects’ and ‘The Art of War’
C. C. Tsai is one of Asia’s most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. These volumes present Tsai’s delightful...
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Barry Scott Wimpfheimer on The Talmud: A Biography
The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of...
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Frederick Cooper on Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship’s complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate, as they...
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Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
by Jerry Muller More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The...
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Michael Robertson on The Last Utopians
For readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid’s Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. In The Last Utopians, a lively literary...
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Sebastian Edwards on American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme...
The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out...
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Dr. John C. Hulsman: Delphic priestesses were the world’s first political...
by Dr. John C. Hulsman In 480 BCE, the citizens of Athens were in more trouble than it is possible for our modern minds to fathom. Xerxes, the seemingly omnipotent son of Darius the Great, had some...
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Dr. John C. Hulsman: The North Korean Summit Hiccup Belies the Greater...
Legend has it that at the height of the Third Crusade (1189-1192), Count Henry of Champagne spoke at length with the mysterious, charismatic “Old Man of the Mountain,” Rashid ad-Din Sinan. The story...
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Michael North on What is the Present
The problem of the present—what it is and what it means—is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics argue that people...
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Brian O’Connor on Idleness: A Philosophical Essay
For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We’re all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement can seem like a...
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Konrad H. Jarausch on Broken Lives
Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they...
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Michael Best on How Growth Really Happens
Achieving economic growth is one of today’s key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to understand how successful growth happens we need an economic framework that focuses...
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Theodore Porter on Genetics in the Madhouse
In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed...
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Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry E. Brady & Sidney Verba on Unequal and Unrepresented
The Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also...
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Browse our 2018 History of Science & History of Knowledge Catalog
We are pleased to announce our new History of Science & History of Knowledge catalog for 2018! Among the exciting new titles are an annotated edition of Albert Einstein’s travel diaries, a new look...
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A Big Deal: Organic Molecules Found on Mars
by David Weintraub In 1976, both Viking 1 and Viking 2 touched down on the surface of Mars. Both landed on vast, flat plains, chosen because they were ideal locations for landing safely. Perhaps the...
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Konrad Jarausch on Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th...
Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they...
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Eli Maor on Music by the Numbers
That music and mathematics are somehow related has been known for centuries. Pythagoras, around the 5th century BCE, may have been the first to discover a quantitative relation between the two:...
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