Elena Llaudet and Kosuke Imai on Data Analysis for Social Science November 28, 2022 Data Analysis for Social Science teaches step-by-step how to analyze data with the free and popular statistical program R and covers the fundamentals of survey research, predictive models, and causal inference. Read More
A time for utopias November 21, 2022 “Generation Dread,” “The World as We Knew It,” or “Global Burning.” This is just a small sample of book titles from this year that deal with global warming and its environmental, socio-economic, political, and cultural consequences. Read More
In the name of connection: Notes on the 2022 meeting of the PUP European Advisory Board November 17, 2022 16 September 2022. The date was set. We would be meeting with the Princeton University Press European Advisory Board—in person!—after a two-year hiatus. And we would be gathering in our new premises in leafy north Oxford, to which we had moved in late 2021. Read More
Democracy’s dilemmas: Ewa Atanassow in conversation with Schuyler Curriden November 15, 2022 How can today’s liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Read More
Ideas and inspiration from Princeton University Press fellows November 14, 2022 In July 2022, Princeton University Press welcomed its second-year Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created in 2021 to address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative launched in 2018. Read More
Prague’s infinite shades of gray November 10, 2022 Interwar Prague was an avant-garde hotbed, but the first exhibition of Czech art to take place at New York’s Museum of Modern Art was not devoted to Czech modernism. Read More
Richard S. Ellis on When Galaxies Were Born November 10, 2022 Astronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. Read More
Alex Zakaras on The Roots of American Individualism November 04, 2022 Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted intrusion, be it from big government, big corporations, or intolerant majorities. Read More
Gurus of degrowth: Say hello to the ancient Cynics November 03, 2022 Mark Twain once quipped “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” Read More
Listening to the tree of life November 02, 2022 Listening to nature is an ancient art. But for most of human history, our ability to listen to other species was constrained. Humans are unable to hear many of the myriad sounds made by other species. Read More
Can we accept other people’s relationships with the environment? November 02, 2022 In the acclaimed television series, The Good Place, the main characters come to learn that in over 500 years, no one has avoided going to “the bad place” after their death. Read More
How Americans’ priorities explain abortion politics October 28, 2022 In only a few months, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—in which the Court majority invalidated the constitutional right to an abortion established almost 50 years ago—has scrambled the political landscape. Read More
Playing in the gray October 28, 2022 How do global elites capitalize on risky frontier markets? They master the art of playing in the gray. Read More
On consolation, grief, and coping, and heaven October 24, 2022 Psychotherapy is not a recent invention. Thousands of years before Freud, Greek thinkers had discovered the seemingly magical effects that words can have to soothe the mind. Read More
Christian nationalism, Christian globalism and White Americans October 21, 2022 Christian Nationalism’s threat to a healthy democracy is a popular topic these days, and with good reason. But few of the many excellent books and articles on the topic explain its origins. Read More
