Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books
“The public don’t understand jazz music as we musicians do. A diminished seventh don’t mean a thing
Michael J. Kramer, author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Countercultu
Hitler famously said about the Armenian genocide “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation o
A common philosophical picture of language proposes to begin with the various kinds of communicative
Vanessa Williamson is coauthor (with Theda Skocpol) of The Tea Party: Remaking of Republican Conserv
Like it or not, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) has a
The Cold War was experienced by millions around the world. For many, Soviets were the enemies, and n
James A. Milward‘s new book offers a thoughtful and spirited history of the silk road for general re
Propositions are key players in philosophy of language and mind. Roughly speaking, they are abstract
Charles Sanders Peirce was the founder of the philosophical tradition known as pragmatism. He is als
In his book Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More
When confronted with a law that they find morally unconscionable, citizens sometimes engage in civil
Pretty much everyone who’s done a linguistics course has come across the name of Ferdinand de Saussu
Muzammil Hussain and Phillip Howard have authored Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Ara
Every hundred years or so, the Supreme Court decides a question with truly vast economic implication
Eric Hayot‘s new book is a bold, ambitious, and inspiring call for revising the way we think about,
Pragmatism is American’s home-grown philosophy, but it is not widely understood. This partly is due
Sarah Reckhow is the author of Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politic
Feed: “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” Comic: “Practice!” When I first began to build a jazz record
For decades now, philosophers, linguists, psychologists and neuroscientists have been working to und
