Ep. 2 – How Dinosaurs Became Birds
May 12, 2016
Journalist and author Richard Conniff talks dinosaurs, the history of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the future of museums.
Category: Current Affairs
Moving Beyond Arab Spring
May 10, 2016
Ibrahim Fraihat— Five years have passed since several Arab countries revolted against their repressive regimes, and peace and stability are nowhere in sight. The unraveling of their political systems pushed… READ MORE
Ep. 1 – Making Medicine More Human
May 5, 2016
Abraham Nussbaum discusses why the medical field could be a little more personal and shares stories from his own experiences as a physician.
For the Love of Trees
April 29, 2016
Peter Crane— Recent estimates suggest that there are roughly three trillion trees in the world, almost half the number that are thought to have existed prior to their widespread use… READ MORE
Rethinking America’s Harsh Criminal Justice System
April 5, 2016
James Q. Whitman— Over the past few years there has been a growing sense of crisis in American criminal justice–a sense on both the right and the left that our… READ MORE
Words and Politics: Lessons from Nuremberg
March 30, 2016
Joel E. Dimsdale— Seventy years ago the international military tribunal at Nuremberg sentenced Julius Streicher to death for incitement of violence. It was one of the court’s most controversial judgments…. READ MORE
The Past, Present, and Future of America and the Islamic World
March 24, 2016
Tarek Osman— In 1801, the rulers of Tripoli, in today’s Libya, declared war on the US, after the republic had attacked North African corsairs who had repeatedly pirated American ships… READ MORE
Presidential Politics and the Symbolic Soldier
March 23, 2016
Jonathan H. Ebel— “I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people.” —Donald J. Trump Every four years, presidential… READ MORE
Russia—the perennial empire
March 21, 2016
Agnia Grigas— With the annexation of Crimea in March 2014, Russia has re-emerged at the forefront of the policy debate not only in academia, but also among the policy-making elite… READ MORE
What SUP From Your Favorite University Presses, March 18th, 2016
March 18, 2016
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn… READ MORE
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