Let’s Make a (New) Deal For historian Lizabeth Cohen, writing in Sunday’s Boston Herald, it’s natural to compare the circumstances as President Obama takes office to those of FDR. The...
While we’re on birthdays… Saturday saw celebrations of Cambridge University’s 800th year. At the centerpiece of the celebrations – a very cool looking light show projected onto...
Poe turns 200 today, and several Poe cities are throwing parties. This wasn’t necessarily the case back at the first 100-mark. I found an article from December 1908 decrying the lack of planned celebrations. New...
From Lima, Darwin yearns for a roaring fire in merry old England, while looking forward to visiting the Galapagos Islands; chiefly for geological reasons. To William Darwin Fox [9–12 August] 1835 Lima July,1...
Congratulations to Cambridge Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, winner of the World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ruymbeke will travel to Tehran to receive official gold...
When calling to request review copies of books, columnist Nat Hentoff always has kind words for Cambridge; something that’s lovely to hear from a writer of his stature. Among his favorite books of...
This article appeared in The Guardian yesterday. A few days before Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), spoke at the demonstration for Palestine earlier this month,...
In case you were wondering how books are really produced, our digital marketing colleagues at Macmillan have produced a handy little documentary, From the Typewriter to the Bookstore. I hope that this...
Alan Wheatley of Reuters recently examined the research of Cambridge author Yasheng Huang in his analysis of capitalism in China. Huang’s research is especially interesting in that it turns conventional...
The Ludwig von Mises Institute posted a look at our own Boldrin/Levine project Against Intellectual Monopoly on their blog back on New Year’s Eve. I missed it until now, but it’s worth a read. In ...
From Mauritius, most of the way home to England after years at sea, Darwin recalls some of the highlights of his journey in a letter to his sister Caroline. He and the entire crew are very homesick, and...
Dig the smoldering crater. Here at Cambridge, when we hear “Galapagos,” we think Darwin. Many people do. But he didn’t catalog all of the strange creatures there. 150 years after Darwin’s...