CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
In Defense of Charisma
Charisma is a contested force. People like Mother Theresa used it for good, but Adolf Hitler also had it and…
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
Drawing on data about modern warfare, which is usually fought against smaller groups of insurgents who commit terrorist attacks, Small…
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
Before we knew about genes, doctors pointed to heredity as a cause for madness, and they, along with government officials…
Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States
Early Americans claimed that the Bible alone was their authority, but Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States…
“Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation
Nancy Weiss Malkiel, a professor of history emerita, explores the end of the 1960s, when many traditional, prestigious universities and…
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
Though mainline Protestantism has seen a sharp decline in the past 50 years — from half to one-tenth of the…
Destiny’s End
Destiny’s End (Createspace) is a novel about Axel Krogan, a talented reporter who witnesses the Battle of Glorieta Pass in…
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas (Princeton University Press) explains that the Euro is in danger because of the…
Scale and the Incas
Andrew James Hamilton, a professor of art and archaeology, argues that scale is neglected but necessary to understand art, especially…
Islam in Pakistan: A History
Pakistan was the largest Muslim country when it was founded in 1947, and Islam in Pakistan (Princeton University Press) traces…
Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age
Despite claiming that everyone is equal, American democracy gives greater voice to the rich than to the underprivileged, especially through…
On War and Writing
Samuel Hynes was a pilot for the Marine Corps during World War II, and over the years he has written…
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Radical Markets (Princeton University Press) offers some counterintuitive ideas for reforming the economy and the country. The authors argue, for…
REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era
Amy Sarah Carroll ’90 examines the art produced in the era of NAFTA (1994-2008) in Mexico City and along the…
On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject
A. Zee explains one of the least understood natural forces: gravity. On Gravity (Princeton University Press) is an accessible yet…
The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do
As a society, we are obsessed with efficiency, and big data promises that we will be able to be more…
An Academic Life: A Memoir
The child of academics who fled Germany during Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, Hanna Holborn Gray *82 both…
Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South
James Hudnut-Beumler *89 journeys through the South, observing many different varieties of Christianity in his book Strangers and Friends at…
