“Failure to Launch,” “Delayed Departure,” even “Parasite Singles.” Media reports and varying degrees of alarm expressed to friends and relatives have cast a fairly negative light on what is becoming more and more common – college graduates and twenty (and even thirty) somethings moving back home to live with their parents. A trend that has […]
Histories of the Revolutionary War are replete with heroes, and Nathan Hale is a favorite among them. In The Martyr and the Traitor, Virginia DeJohn Anderson puts Hale’s story and by association, our understanding of the Revolution, in a strikingly new light by considering his life side by side with the life of Moses Dunbar. Dunbar, […]
The Arctic, the last great wilderness, has been simultaneously as isolated and remote a place as most of us can imagine—its marine and terrestrial environments separated from the rest of the world by barriers of ice—and more connected to our own lives than we have ever dreamed. The effects of the changes we are seeing […]
Samantha Brennan is the Dean of the College of Arts at the University of Guelph and a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy. An internationally renowned feminist philosopher, her main research interests lie in the area of contemporary normative ethics, applied ethics, and feminist philosophy. Samantha is President of the Canadian Philosophical Associationand Co-editor and […]
Reuben Miller is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration. His work focuses on the lives of prisoners and former prisoners, and he writes about race and how carceral expansion has transformed the urban landscape. Before coming to Chicago, he was an Assistant Professor of Social Work […]
Andreas Wagner is a professor in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute for the study of complex systems. He is the author of Arrival of the Fittest: How Life Invents Itself, which Kirkus (in a starred review) called “A book of startling congruencies, insightful flashes and an artful enthusiasm…’ His next book, Landscapes of Evolution: Mapping the Origins of Creativity, will be published by Basic Books.
Thomas “Tim” Borstelmann is the Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches U.S. and international history. He previously taught at Cornell University. Tim is the author of The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena, published by Harvard […]
America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays—rather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy.
The Battle by Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, offers a plan of action for the defense of free enterprise; it is at once a call to arms and a crucial redefinition of the political and moral gulf that divides Right and Left in America today. The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
Arthur Brooks is also the author of Who Really Cares and Gross National Happiness, both published by Basic Books.
Read more about The Battle at ArthurBrooks.net
The Battle is now available from Audible.com
Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives, and conservatives disagree. In fact, almost every group thinks they are happier than everyone else. In this provocative new book, Arthur C. Brooks […]
Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. With Paul in the army from 1914 through 1919, they were forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Drawing upon the hundreds of letters they wrote, Martha Hanna tells their moving story and reveals a powerful […]
Sunflower County, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, stood at the epicenter of Civil Rights activism in the 1960s, in part because it was a black majority county in which white cotton farmers held all the power, and in part because Senator James Eastland and activist Fannie Lou Hamer, two of its most prominent […]
Eva Rosen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology, at the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. She will join the faculty at Georgetown University in Fall 2017. Her research and writing focuses on urban sociology, poverty and inequality, race and ethnicity, immigration, and social policy.
Evalyn I. Gates is the author of Einstein’s Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe. Transporting readers to the edge of contemporary science, it introduces them to gravitational lensing, or the so-called ”Einstein’s telescope” a revolutionary tool that is unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Kirkus called the book, “splendidly satisfying […]
One of the connected economy’s most thought-provoking mavericks, David Weinberger is a senior researcher at the Berkman Center. He is the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, a national bestseller that has been translated into twelve languages and is considered one the seminal books about business and the Internet. A tenth anniversary edition was published in […]
Kathy Peiss, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, is an award-winning writer and teacher. Her books explore the cultural history of the 20th century United States, including the history of women and sexuality, beauty and style, and popular culture. Hope in a Jar: The Making […]