CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In Tact (Princeton University Press), David Russell *11 argues that tact was an invention of the 19th century, when Britain…
Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide
Economists sometimes overlook the human costs of best economic policy, while politicians often go to economists to reinforce their own…
Bluff
Bluff (Grove Atlantic) is about Natalie Webb, a card trick prodigy at age 17, who has been shunned by the…
Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming
Unfinished (Duke University Press) explores the concept of an anthropology of becoming, which examines how people’s becomings trouble or exceed…
Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity
David Frankfurter *90 offers a new model for analyzing the process of Christianization. He applies it in Christianizing Egypt (Princeton…
Tomorrowland: Scenarios for Law Firms Beyond the Horizon
Tomorrowland (CreateSpace) explores possible future scenarios for law firms, from maintaining status quo to a dramatic escalation in the war…
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Bryan Caplan *97 argues that the primary function of education is not to give students skills that they will use…
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
Seneca believed that it took a lifetime to learn how to die, and throughout his life, he returned to the…
The Essential Fictions
Essential Fictions (Northwestern University Press), translated by Val Vinokur *01, is a collection of 72 short stories by twentieth-century Russian…
Why Does Michelangelo Matter?: A Historian’s Questions About the Visual Arts
Theodore Rabb *61 has been asking what historians should learn from art since the ’70s, and he has argued that…
Harbor of Spies
Set in Havana during the American Civil War, Harbor of Spies (Lyons Press) is a historical novel about American naval…
You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town
Jamie Sayen ’71 has spent years interviewing the residents of a New Hampshire town. The community’s paper mill had been…
Engagement Organizing: The Old Art and New Science of Winning Campaigns
Matt Price *95 shows readers how to combine old-school people power with new digital tools and data to win campaigns…
Emerging Nature: Precursor of Architecture and Design
Emilio Ambasz *66 is one of the most important pioneers of Green Architecture, which combines landscape and architecture. Emerging Nature…
Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor
The epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. It fell out of favor in the…
Nuclear Blues
Nuclear Blues (Great Leader Books) is the story of journalist Heck Davis, who is burned out and has switched careers…
Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics
Princeton physics professor and 2017 Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne *65 and Roger Blandford present a physics textbook for first-year graduate…
Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
Dani Rodrik *81 *85, a critic of economic globalization because it has gone too far, goes beyond populism to explain…
