Deaths at Gitmo: The Report
December 7, 2009
The Huffington Post interviews Mark Denbeaux, author of The Guantanamo Lawyers, who oversaw the report that came out this morning regarding three deaths at the infamous prison. Q: You conclude… READ MORE
Category: Politics
Stanley Fish: The Post-PC University
December 1, 2009
In a NYTimes online op-ed, Stanley Fish compares Cary Nelson’s forthcoming No University is an Island with another study of political correctness at universities. He offers high praise for Nelson’s… READ MORE
Truthdig Goes to Guantanamo
November 23, 2009
Leading progressive news site Truthdig published an excerpt from The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. I first saw him on a TV screen. Before my initial meeting… READ MORE
Justice as Paradox: Civilian Trials for 9/11 Suspects
November 18, 2009
Jonathan Hafetz, co-editor of The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law, has a blog post up at Balkinization. A Short excerpt is below. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement… READ MORE
Veterans’ Day: 21st Century Remembrance
November 11, 2009
Time for a Recasting? a post by Lisa M. Budreau, author of Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 As another Veteran’s Day… READ MORE
A Prescription for Mental Health Care Reform
November 2, 2009
Timothy Kelly, author of Healing the Broken Mind, has an op-ed in the Washington Post today. “For too many Americans with mental illness, the mental health services they need remain… READ MORE
PW: Cruising with the Left to a War in Utopia
October 5, 2009
Reviews of two of our biggest fall titles are in the latest Publishers Weekly. The Left at War by Michael Bérubé. Fresh off the 2008 election and anticipating an ascendancy… READ MORE
Talking Civil Rights Where it Happened: Hasan Jeffries in Lowndes County
September 10, 2009
Hasan Jeffries brought his book, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, to the county where it happened in rural Alabama.