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The Stalin Cult
A Study in the Alchemy of Power
Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems...
What They Do With Your Money
How the Financial System Fails Us and How to Fix It
A call to reboot capitalism and preserve $85 trillion in retirement savings for their owners—not for use as the financial industry’s ATM Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial...
The Political Spectrum
The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government’s regulation of the airwaves Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927,...
(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love
Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to “make it” in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work Profound transformations in our digital society have...
Hubris
Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
A frank assessment of economists’ blindness before the financial crash in 2007–2008 and what must be done to avert a sequel The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate...
The Edge of Reason
A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity...
Zwingli
God’s Armed Prophet
A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli—the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) was the most significant early reformer after Martin Luther. As the architect of...
Rapture and Melancholy
The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’” (Kirkus Reviews) “Provides an occasion to revisit not...
Spatial Orders, Social Forms
Art and the City in Modern Brazil
A fascinating look at modernist urban planning and spatial theories in Brazilian 20th-century art and architecture Exploring the intersections among art, architecture, and urbanism in Brazil from the 1920s through...
Radical Form
Modernist Abstraction in South America
A timely reassessment of some of the most daring projects of abstraction from South America Emphasizing the open-ended and self-critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s...