Conspicuousness/Invisibility
March 14, 2017
Sally McKee— In August, 2014, while all across the United States many African Americans and their allies protested the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, I sat at… READ MORE
Category: Current Affairs
An A to Z of Economics: Part II
March 13, 2017
Niall Kishtainy— Welcome to part two of Niall Kishtainy’s A-Z of Economics. Compiled exclusively for the Yale Books Blog to celebrate the publication of A Little History of Economics, Kishtainy’s A-Z brings to… READ MORE
An A to Z of Economics: Part 1
March 10, 2017
Niall Kishtainy— To celebrate the publication of A Little History of Economics, we asked its author—writer, economist and historian Niall Kishtainy—to explain some of the most important staples of economic terminology for… READ MORE
Ep. 15 – The Truth About Shyness
Joe Moran, author of Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness, discusses his own experiences with shyness as well as the history of this common and misunderstood aspect of the… READ MORE
An International Women’s Day Reading List
March 8, 2017
Today is International Women’s Day, a day to honor the women who have fought for political and social equality around the world. But even as we celebrate the courage, creativity,… READ MORE
What the Soviet Story Teaches Us about Sincerity
March 7, 2017
Ellen Rutten— Concerns about sincere expression matter hard today. Social media and e-services are transforming the meaning of trust – in both bad ways (online frauds, hacker interventions) and good (when that… READ MORE
The Gift Economy of the Earliest Christians
March 6, 2017
Thomas R. Blanton IV— The apostle Paul, a Jewish preacher of the “good news” of Jesus of Nazareth, promoted a “spiritual economy” within the small groups of the early Christian movement… READ MORE
William Shakespeare: Political Commentator
March 2, 2017
Peter Lake— It is, of course, notoriously difficult to say anything novel, or even arrestingly interesting, about Shakespeare. In fact, I never intended to write a book about Shakespeare at all…. READ MORE
Remembering the 1967 Six-Day War
March 1, 2017
Guy Laron— Are wars the result of accidents, compounded by misassessments, misunderstandings, and miscalculations? If this is true, there is no one to blame; according to this view, wars simply happen…. READ MORE
A Brief History of American Exceptionalism
February 28, 2017
Burton Mack— “American exceptionalism,” a term that is currently making the rounds among journalists, denotes those features of American self-understanding that distinguish it from other modern societies, especially European nation-states. Most… READ MORE
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