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With November midterms coming up, it appears the political parties are more polarized than ever! Sean M. Theriault’s Party Polarization in Congress details our nation’s history of bipartisanship in this article by Gary Andres of The Weekly Standard.
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It was just a few decades ago that elite education institutions in this country were placing quotas against Jewish students, encouraging students to visit Nazi Germany on exchange programs, refusing to hire Jewish refugee scholars fleeing Hitler, and punishing both faculty and students who protested the school’s friendly relations with the Nazi regime.
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Companies wanting to target ethically minded consumers need to understand some hard truths about human motivation and action if they want to capitalize on a growing trend, argue Timothy M. Devinney, Pat Auger & Giana M. Eckhardt.
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Plans by the Cordoba Initiative to build a community center that includes a mosque near the former site of the World Trade Center in New York have sparked a heated national debate. Some argue vehemently that the group–started after 9/11 to promote religious and cultural understanding–should not attempt to build a mosque so close to […]
Read MoreLouise Shelley concludes that human trafficking will grow in the twenty-first century as a result of economic and demographic inequalities in the world, the rise of conflicts, and possibly global climate change. Rising gas prices, border issues, the economy... it's still continuing. Meet her at Politics and Prose tonight, or watch these informative videos from the Hudson Institute.
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Louise Shelley, author of Human Trafficking, will be at D.C.’s famous independent bookstore, Politics and Prose, to discuss the stark realities of the global trend at 7pm, August 23.
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In this guest post, our book loving coworker, Rebecca Yeager, declares her love for the literature of the Emerald Isle. Be sure to check out Thomas Bartlett’s Ireland: A History, out this month. Rebecca learned a few things in IRELAND and asked, "did you know that in 1902, a group of British Iraelites began illegal excavations at Tara in search of the Ark of the Covenant, and where stopped in part by through the efforts of several Irishmen, including Y.B. Yeats?"
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The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression‘s Book of the Month for August is Ron Collins‘ The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader – Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letter and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.. Check out the interview where Collins discusses the role that Holmes played […]
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