In 1839, James Collins Johnson fled slavery in Maryland and found work in Princeton as a janitor for the college…

Flip-Flops and Microwaved Fish (Greenleaf) offers practical advice for people beginning lives in the professional world, humorously addressing standards of…

The U.S. government has several avenues for practicing foreign policy, such as monetary and physical aid, trade, and military force…

In Illiberal Reformers (Princeton University Press), research scholar Thomas C. Leonard explores the rise of the “administrative state” during the…

Less than 20 years after the United States achieved independence, the French colony of Haiti underwent its own revolution, led…

From ankle monitors and policing algorithms, technologies rapidly expanded into everyday life including hospitals, schools, banking, social services, shopping malls…

After America won the Cold War, Andrew Bacevich *82 argues that we developed a hubris that undermined the seemingly bright…

In a new study, Jennifer S. Hirsch ’88 and Shamus Khan double down on the gravity of sexual assault on…

After Trump’s election in 2016, a tactical guide for resisting Trump’s initiatives titled “Indivisible” went viral, inspired millions of people…

In this updated anniversary edition of The Life You Can Save, 10th Anniversary Edition ( www.thelifeyoucansave.org), Peter Singer unflinchingly faces…

John M. Heffron ’74 argues that Southern cultural traditions at the turn of the 20th century enabled, rather than stymied…

We’ve never experienced a world without the “job system” that has organized work since the Industrial Revolution—but, according to Frithjof…

Starting your own business as a burgeoning entrepreneur is a difficult, risky, and expensive move—but by asking questions, doing careful…

Digital technology facilitates connectivity in an overwhelmingly appealing way to humans seeking social bonds and interactions. In The Attention Deficit…

Daniel Goodman’82 teams up with leading scientists and engineers to explore the harshness and difficulties of being a scientist. Finding…

Berda *14, who worked as a civil-rights attorney in the West Bank, provides a first-hand account of Israel’s permit regime…

Mary Watkins ’72’s Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons (Yale University Press), has been called “A landmark book…

Professor of modern and contemporary history Michael D. Gordin sheds a light on Einstein’s 16 months spent in Prague, in…