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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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
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
Labor Day Reading List 2023
September 4, 2023
In the latter half of the 19th century, growing labor movements and unions pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the contributions of American workers. On June 28th, 1894, President… READ MORE
How Cold War Intellectuals Destroyed Liberalism to Save It
September 1, 2023
Samuel Moyn— The Cold War ended decades ago. It seems like, well, ancient history. The same must seem true of the form of liberalism that emerged in the middle of… READ MORE
Supreme Hubris: A Conversation with Aaron Tang
August 28, 2023
In Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court—and How We Can Fix It, legal scholar Aaron Tang tackles the Supreme Court’s public legitimacy crisis and proposes a solution that… READ MORE
The Detective Story that Broke Politics
August 24, 2023
Luke A. Nichter— For me, December 7th is not “a date which will live in infamy,” as Franklin D. Roosevelt said in 1941. It is a date—December 7th, 2017—in which… READ MORE
Are Wars Rational?
August 8, 2023
Michael Mann— Most wars have been irrational in terms of means or ends or both together. This is because choices for war are influenced by emotions, ideologies, domestic politics, and… READ MORE
Korea: A Conversation with Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo
June 26, 2023
Korea has a long, riveting history—it is also a divided nation. In Korea: A New History of South and North, Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of… READ MORE
History is Littered with False Narratives
June 9, 2023
Stephen Roach— HISTORY IS LITTERED WITH FALSE NARRATIVES. From the flat earth theory and the Ptolemaic system of cosmology to tales of UFO sightings and the “Big Lie” of election… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life