Arend D Lubbers was president of an unusual state university for a long time - thirty-two years - and during a very significant period of American and global history -…

An inquiry into how westerners can tap into their own philosophical and spiritual traditions to grow beyond their unsteadiness of relations, inner dullness, and underlying absence of vision or orientation…

Williamsport was once known as the lumber capital of the world, claiming to have more millionaires per capita living there than anywhere else in the world. Made fashionable by visionary…

The history of Hollywood is often seen only through the lens of the major studios, forgetting that many of Tinseltown’s early creations came from micro-studios stretched along Sunset Boulevard in…

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, his plays are important both for the way they address…

Strange (new) worlds, lacunae, neglected archives, alternative futurisms, cancelled futures regained, planetary consciousness, carrier-bag fictions, a past citable in all its moments, the not-yet. Actually choose-your-own-adventure. A now thoroughly contingent…

This book examines decline in Europe and the United States from historical, military, and economic perspectives. Essays on China’s rise and Russia’s recent history frame the discussion. Is decline, as…