Archive for March, 2011

A Chat with Leonard Cassuto

By ⋅ March 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Just for opening day, here’s The Cambridge Companion to Baseball coeditor Lenny Cassuto talking about the national pastime, its two pasts, and its troubled present. Play ball!

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The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Book Launch

By ⋅ March 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Pregame for opening day at The Cambridge Companion to Baseball book launch this Thursday evening at Borders Columbus Circle. Game time is 7 pm. BYO peanuts and Cracker Jacks.

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Rank Professionalism: Scott L. Cummings Responds to the Law School Crisis

By ⋅ March 30, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Legal education reform is crucial to the project of promoting “the possibility of justice.” And reformers of the profession have long focused on changing the nature and culture of law school to create more public-minded professionals. But as David Segal’s recent New York Times piece (“Is Law School a Losing Game?”) reminds us, the role [...]

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Terrorism and the Ethics of War Wins NASSP Prize

By ⋅ March 29, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

We’re pleased to announce that Stephen Nathanson’s Terrorism and the Ethics of War has been selected by the American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) as the 2010′s best book in social philosophy. Congratulations to Professor Nathanson!

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Green new deals, ecological scarcity, and the lessons of history
by Edward B. Barbier for TripleCrisis

By ⋅ March 28, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The history of natural resource use and development, from the Agricultural Transition 12,000 years ago to the present, suggests that humankind has had to surmount successive scarcity problems:  From Malthusian population-land “traps” to fossil fuel scarcity, and now, ecological scarcity.

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