Making the case for Keynes
Peter Temin’s new book explains how John Maynard Keynes’ ideas relate to today’s global economy.
Time to rethink foreign policy?
In a new book, political scientist Barry Posen makes the case for a more limited U.S. military strategy.
"Game Changers" explores a cheaper, cleaner, and more secure national energy system
Stanford-MIT book puts focus on the need for energy innovation R&D.
The varieties of nuclear strategy
In a new book, MIT political scientist examines the multiple political uses of nuclear weapons.
Bruno Perreau examines the politics of adoption in France
A lens for views on gender, parenthood, and "Frenchness."
Film, form, and feeling
MIT professor’s new book studies formal properties of movies and the structure of our emotions.
3 Questions with Seth Mnookin
Journalist and best-selling author discusses the challenges and impacts of science writing
Social physics
Media Lab professor’s new book ties more than a decade’s research into a new theory of information propagation in communities large and small.
Anthropologist Manduhai Buyandelger wins the 2013 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
The $25,000 research grant will go towards supporting the professor's ethnographic study of parliamentary elections in Mongolia.
Symposium marks 50th anniversary of ‘The Machine in the Garden’
Enduringly influential book by Leo Marx, MIT professor emeritus
A new path for growth
In a new book, MIT political scientist Ben Ross Schneider sets out an agenda for growth with greater equality in Latin America.