The Persistence of Place
Sociologist Robert J. Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago.
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The “Steel Factory”
Ezra Vogel’s monumental biography of Deng Xiaopeng, the doctrinaire pragmatist who modernized China.
8.19.11
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Recent books with Harvard connections.
8.19.11
Financial Reform: The Doggerel
An ode to transparency
8.19.11
(Un)common Sense
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians’ appeals to “common sense.”
6.16.11
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6.16.11
Devoted to Debt
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman’s Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.
6.16.11
Do or Die
Sugata Bose reviews Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, by Joseph Lelyveld.
4.17.11
Honeybee House Hunting
An excerpt from Thomas D. Seeley’s new book, Honeybee Democracy
4.17.11
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4.17.11
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2.23.11
And the War Came
At its sesquicentennial, a fresh, revealing narrative of the advent of the Civil War
2.23.11
On Behavioral Ethics
Analyzing cognition and behaviors to explore how individuals and organizations conduct themselves relative to ethical standards
2.23.11
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12.16.10
American Ratification
The great experiment in constitution-making