I should have posted this much earlier, but it just dawned on me that I should have invited all our NYC-based readers to the book launch of the US-edition of my book on Limitarianism. I guess my best and most truthful excuse is that I’ve been too busy with media requests since the Dutch version […]
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“As far as I’m concerned, I’m done with this,” investigative reporter David Neiwert told us,...
Cloying sentimentality, saccharine pablum, ridiculous camp and embarrassing kitsch—in the contemporary moment the word “angel”...
by Dror Goldberg* Where and when did modern currency originate? My book Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency (University of Chicago Press, 2023) tackles this fascinating question. I discover and explain the origin of modern currency in 1690 in the English colony of Massachusetts Bay — an unimportant place, compared to […]
For decades, the American Right has claimed children’s rights are anathema. They undermine the family,...
by Frank Jacob* What is Immanuel Wallerstein’s legacy for the 21st century? Following the closure of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations that Wallerstein directed at SUNY Binghampton and the discontinuation in 2016 of Review, the journal he founded in 1976, this is an important question. World-systems theory […]
What inspired you to write The Exorcist Effect? Over twenty years ago, Michael Cuneo wrote...
After a couple of months of deep writing, I’ve just turned in my first two chapters for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media. It’s been a really tough process for me. I’ve never written a book, or really any text of this size, before, so learning how to organise the process and my time has … Continue reading First two chapters turned in
Riding high from his tenure as the moderate governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney was anxious...
Is it too early to be thinking about Christmas? Almost certainly, yes. Is this year going to be THE year in which you get all your shopping sorted way ahead of time? Probably not, no. Is there a book publishing today which could solve many of your Christmas shopping headaches? No idea, tbh. Regardless, I…