Books & Publishing

Scott McLemee interviews the author of a new book about the pre-eminent author and political thinker W. E. B. Du Bois, whose legacy remains highly relevant today.

Author discusses his new book about how administrators can lead colleges with "mindfulness and self-compassion" -- and the right emotions.

Author discusses his new book about why philosophers were an early target of the Cold War Red scare.

While long neglected until its recent republication, Heinrich Kaan’s Psychopathia Sexualis had important implications: it treated human sexuality as entirely explicable within nature, writes Scott McLemee.

In new collection of essays, scholars make the case for diversity as essential to higher education and society generally.

Author discusses new book on the history of elite universities becoming coeducational -- with the push coming from male leaders for reasons having little to do with equity.

In Deciding What’s True, Lucas Graves traces how media outlets’ internal fact-checking has morphed into something almost antithetical: the very public evaluation of factual assertions made by politicians and other news figures, writes Scott McLemee.

Author discusses his new book on the politics of tuition policies in OECD countries.