Alelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle—reputable educational institutions, but not considered eq...
5 Jul 202315min
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, thi...
4 Jul 202316min
Why Photography Matters
Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works--not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and ...
3 Jul 202312min
Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey
Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academic brilliance won h...
2 Jul 202315min
Dynamics Among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States
Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical system. In Dynamics Among Nations, Hilton Root argu...
1 Jul 202317min
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once the purview of rocket scientists, reach a larger au...
30 Jun 202319min
Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for o...
29 Jun 202315min
Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointm...
28 Jun 202318min
