New Laws of Robotics by Frank Pasquale
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A new book looks at - and attempts to structure - the future of human-machine partnerships.
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Ingenious by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson
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Observations that have been made in a hundred other places, and a hundred times better.
Read MoreThe Will of the People by T.H. Bree
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An extremely well-paced and engaging account of those who never enjoyed the attentions of history.
Read MoreUnbound by Heather Boushey
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The author assumes a degree of ignorance on the part of the reader, taking them on a journey that was only ever going to go in one direction.
Capitalism, Alone by Branko Milanovic
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Milanovic attempts to identify the key systemic, as opposed to incidental, social and economic features of two main variants of capitalism.
Read MoreThe Origin of Empire by David Potter
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Built on a careful blending of original sources and secondary sources, both scholarly and popular.
Read MoreBored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt
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Are iPhones, iPads, GPS, and the Internet exacerbating negatives and simultaneously eroding the positives?
Read MoreGropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus by Fiona McCarthy
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McCarthy is a wonderfully sympathetic biographer, and her reading and research in these pages is vast.
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Sentinel by Francesca Lidia Viano
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The general public has embraced The Statute of Liberty like no other work of art in the American experience.
Read MoreUniverse in Creation by Roy R. Gould
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The author argues that the universe is no random accident; rather, it is working purposefully to extract order from chaos.
Read MoreThe Known Citizen by Sarah E. Igo
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This author covers broad stretches of legal and social history, and charts the changing nature of privacy in the public eye.
Read MoreTop Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Piketty
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A study of the ways incomes fluctuate and the factors that determine what widens and narrows income inequality.
Read MoreThe Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi by Johann Chapoutot
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The Law of Blood does invigorating work in attempting to explain how such a wildly repulsive ideology could take hold in the hearts and minds of ordinary people.
Read MoreA Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin & Faith by John Rawls
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John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice, was perhaps the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. As an undergraduate at Princeton in 1942, he submitted A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: An Interpretation Based on the Concept of Community as his senior thesis. Decades later, Professor Eric Gregory of the Princeton religion department found this thesis in the Princeton Library, and now New York University Law professor Thomas Nagel has edited it into a book.
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