China Has Peaked? It Can Still Change World Order
September 28, 2023
John M. Owen IV— The smart money, it seems, is now saying that China has peaked. The slowing of the country’s economic growth is starting to seem like more than a… READ MORE
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What If Julian the Apostate Had Lived?
September 26, 2023
Philip Freeman— Sometimes when I’m teaching ancient history to my undergraduate students, I like to ask them how the world today would be different if some key event in the… READ MORE
The Abduction of a Professor: A True Crime Story
September 25, 2023
Allen Wells— On March 12, 1956, a Columbia University professor, Jesús de Galíndez, is abducted off the streets of Manhattan, forced into a private ambulance at gunpoint, drugged, and rushed… READ MORE
The Challenge of Casanova
September 22, 2023
Leo Damrosch— Everyone knows that Casanova was a seducer. He belongs to that rare company of mortals whose personal names have floated free from history, and we know what a… READ MORE
A Window Suddenly Opens
September 21, 2023
Betsy Johnson— When concept enters Chinese photography, it is as if a window suddenly opens in a room that has been sealed for years. We can now breathe comfortably, and… READ MORE
Ep. 120—A Global History of Wars
September 20, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with award-winning sociologist Michael Mann about his new book, On Wars. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Soundcloud
Jean Pfaelzer on California, A Slave State
September 18, 2023
In California, a Slave State, Jean Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs… READ MORE
William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision
September 14, 2023
TK Smith— The William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision exhibition catalogue makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Edmondson, while stressing the critical need for more. The Barnes Foundation has… READ MORE
In Other Lives
September 13, 2023
Greil Marcus— “I can see myself in others,” Bob Dylan said in Rome in 2001, speaking to a crowd of journalists, and if there is a key to his work… READ MORE
Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and America’s Public Lands
September 12, 2023
John D. Leshy— What lessons and opportunities do our public lands—which occupy nearly one-third of the nation plus vast areas of submerged lands off our coasts—offer in addressing the interrelated… READ MORE
China Has Peaked? It Can Still Change World Order