Have you ever wondered what our authors experience on a book tour? Hilary Levey Friedman, author of Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture, lined up a cross-country tour, reading and …
Read More >Hilary Levey Friedman’s Atlantic article about the increasing prevalence of childhood competitive sports has spurred a discussion at the New York Times‘ Room for Debate. The Times assembled a team of experts to debate …
Read More >Danish journalist and anthropologist Hans Lucht published an editorial in today’s New York Times on the tragic boat accident that took the lives of more than 100 African migrants just off the …
Read More >August 2013 marks a sad milestone for the Golden Gate Bridge. There were more suicides that month—10—than any other in the bridge’s history. John Bateson, author of The Final Leap, calls attention to …
Read More >To mark the 2nd anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, we’re revisiting the origins of the General Assembly with this excerpt from Nathan Schneider’s Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy …
Read More >Guest post by Mary Helen Spooner It has been four decades since Chile’s Salvador Allende, a socialist, was overthrown in a military coup whose violence shocked the world and ushered in sixteen …
Read More >Is Elon Musk’s Hyperloop like a 21st century version of the transcontinental railroad? Jon Christensen, the Editor of Boom: A Journal of California, draws some interesting parallels between the two in the …
Read More >Today in The Atlantic, Hilary Levey Friedman writes about the gendered notions that influence parents’ choice of after-school activities for their girls. If you’ve ever wondered about how your daughter’s extracurriculars can …
Read More >Traveling the 38th Parallel authors David and Janet Carle highlight some important climate change issues on their blog, Parallel Universe 38°N. First, they point to some amazing photos of 30 million tons …
Read More >Tomás R. Jiménez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, recently contributed an op-ed to the L.A. Times on the immigration bill just passed in the Senate whose fate will …
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