Eugene J. Johnson, Amos Lawrence Professor of Art, Emeritus and Michael J. Lewis, Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art. Princeton Architectural Press, December 2018. Available on Amazon. Nestled in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, Williams College routinely ranks atop the best liberal arts colleges in the… Continue reading »
Chad Orzel ’93. BenBella Books, December 2018. Available on Amazon. In this book, Chad Orzel illuminates the strange phenomena lurking just beneath the surface of our ordinary lives by digging into the surprisingly complicated physics involved in his (and anyone’s) morning routine. Orzel, author of… Continue reading »
Peter Cave and Dan Cohn-Sherbok ’66. Equinox Publishing Ltd., November 2018. Who are the Jews? What do they believe? Why is Israel so important to them? What’s all this about self-hating Jews? These are just some of the questions that engage a Reform rabbi and… Continue reading »
Jennifer (Hallett) Sinsigalli, ’96. Choir Alley Press, November 2018. Available on Amazon. If you were living in civilized places like England or the Netherlands, why would you consider boarding the Mayflower, bound for the New World? The Atlantic crossing would be a nightmare, with the… Continue reading »
Stephen Best ’89. Duke University Press, November 2018. It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation… Continue reading »
Oren Cass ’05. Encounter Books, November 2018. Available on Amazon. The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates climb. In this groundbreaking re-evaluation… Continue reading »
Mark Taylor, Cluett Professor of Humanities, Emeritus. The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post- age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his central philosophical preoccupations and asks: What comes after the end?… Continue reading »
Jim Lindheim ’67. Wheatmark, Inc., November 2018. Available on Amazon. Veteran corporate crisis counselor Jonathan Keaton is one of the most respected spin doctors in the world. His vast experience, outsized personality, and wily cynicism have made him the go-to guy for companies in trouble.But when… Continue reading »
Susan Engel, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Founding Director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College. Heinemann, September 2018. Available on Amazon. This is a book of stories about students and teachers. But it is also a book about children’s development. Each chapter tells… Continue reading »
Alan Hirsch, Lecturer in Humanities, Chair of Justice and Law Studies. City Lights Publishers, 2018. Available on Amazon. Constitutional scholar Alan Hirsch offers clear and to-the-point guidance for all matters relating to removing a sitting president—from the Founder’s constitutional protections against executive criminality, and the… Continue reading »
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