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Roger N. Lancaster, professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University and author of Sex Panic and the Punitive State, recently penned an op-ed for the New York Times on how restrictions for sex offenders should be determined and the implications of creating policies in direct response to traumatic events. Read his take below: Panic [more...]  Have you noticed how far a newscast will go to slap a “local interest” angle on an otherwise perfectly newsworthy international story, as if we couldn’t possibly care about something happening on the other side of the globe without seeing another American somehow involved? The New York Times posted a great piece detailing an article published in the October issue of The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists’ Union, exploring the cycle of abuse in birds. The Auk is one of over 50 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines published by the Journals and Digital Publishing Division [more...] An example of a drug fact box for Abilify from the New York Times What if drug companies made simple, easy to understand labels for your prescription, the way food companies do with nutrition labels? According to Steven Woloshin and Lisa M. Schwartz, the authors of Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics, consumers might make different choices about [more...] UC Press author and associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College Frederick Lynch published an op-ed in today’s New York Times about the AARP’s identity crisis and the actions the organization needs to take if it hopes to protect the interests of Americans over 50 in an era of retrenchment. Lynch, whose book One Nation [more...] Guest Post by Lawrence Kramer “Why do we personify ourselves in music?” The question, emphasis included, came up in an earlier blog post of mine dealing with the impromptu competition among readers of the New York Times to secure their favorite classical composers a spot on a ten-best list constructed by the newspaper’s chief music critic, [more...] Guest Post by Lawrence Kramer Who, in rank order, were the ten greatest classical composers? Anthony Tommasini, the chief music critic of the New York Times, recently offered an annotated list (January 21, 2011) after airing the question in several articles. Tommasini was well aware that the project was impossible: any such list could represent only [more...] We’re entering the heyday of Mark Twain impersonators, according to the New York Times, and the trend is inspired by the popularity of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, which has been on the Best Sellers list for 13 weeks and counting. “Long consigned to the dustbin of historical-society meetings and elementary school classrooms,” writes [more...] Hugh Johnson’s The World of Trees has been recognized in the New York Times, Shelf Awareness, the Globe and Mail, and elsewhere as one of the best gift books around this holiday season. Known to millions through his internationally best-selling wine books, Johnson is also among the world’s leading writers on gardening and trees. The [more...] In the latest UC Press podcast, host Chris Gondek talks to author Rebecca Solnit and UC Press Art Director Lia Tjandra about the creation of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and UC Press’s act of faith in taking on the project. In working on the book, Solnit says, she was alarmed to learn that she [more...] |
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