Princeton University Press extends its congratulations to Cass Sunstein, constitutional law scholar and PUP author.  The Washington Post and the Chronicle of Higher Education report that Sunstein has been appointed to a senior level position in Barack Obama’s administration. In this new position he will oversee the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and will be involved in reforming government regulation–a key point in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and a huge issue in the face of the economic crisis.

Sunstein, a prolific author, has graced the catalogs of Princeton University Press no less than four times with the publications of Echo Chambers: Bush v. Gore, Impeachment, and Beyond, Republic.com, Republic.com 2.0, and the forthcoming book on Consitutional interpretation, A Consitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What It Meant Before.

The American Philosophical Association held the  annual meeting of its Eastern Division in Philadelphia last week, as per long-standing custom, during the days between Christmas and New Year (Dec. 27^th – 30^th). As usual, what precisely philosophers do at this meeting proved to be fodder for a journalistic round-up of the conference’s events as Carlin Romano does here in a piece for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Some things never change it seems. In a previously unpublished essay included in PUP’s just released 30^th anniversary edition of his seminal work Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Richard Rorty, who died last year, used the occasion of the journalistic coverage of the annual meeting as a launching point for his musings on what it is philosophers do and should think of themselves as doing.

Our friends in Washington, DC, Hooks Book Events have been getting some great exposure with this excellent piece in yesterday’s Washington Post.  The piece features a recent tour of our very own Robert Shiller and THE SUBPRIME SOLUTION.

We’ve been working with Hooks Book Events for the past year+ and have had great experiences and success with author events in Washington.