Books

An Interview with Anya Kamenetz about student loans, higher education, and her book “DIY U”

by Andrew Hazlett April 19, 2010

Anya Kamenetz is the author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. She’s also the subject of our very first (and very beta) video interview: DIY U is about the future of higher education: It’s a story about the communities of visionaries who are tackling the enormous challenges of cost, [...]

Karen Armstrong’s Case for God

by Andrew Hazlett December 13, 2009

Religion poisons everything… God is a delusion… the end of faith… these are phrases lately found among the burgeoning supply of books by “new atheists” who take arms against a sea of holy rollers and jihadis. In an age of faith-based politics, resurgent creationism, and religious terrorism, aggressive atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and [...]

Ted Gioia on the Birth and Death of the Cool

by Andrew Hazlett December 10, 2009

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Has coolness runs its course? Are we living in a post-”cool” culture? Musician and writer Ted Gioia talks about his new book, The Birth and Death of the Cool in episode 102 of The New Modern podcast. You can listen using the embedded player above or via iTunes. [...]

Tyler Cowen: Information Revolution, Autism, Digital Fragmentation, and the New Cultural Order

by Andrew Hazlett December 10, 2009

Huffduff it [huh?] Episode 101 of The New Modern podcast is an interview with Tyler Cowen about his fascinating new book Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World. In addition to his renown as a professor of economics at George Mason University, Tyler Cowen is familiar to many habitual web [...]

Protected: A Mexican Culinary Adventure with Jonathan Gold

by Scott Timberg December 7, 2009

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Louis Armstrong: Terry Teachout’s stirring new biography of the jazz icon

by Andrew Hazlett November 23, 2009

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout. The new biography of the jazz icon gets a rave review in the New York Times.