Archived Scholar Publications
Fiona Greenland and Fatma Müge GöçekFiona Greenland (Michigan and New College '98)
Donald Markwell
David Quammen
W.W. Norton & Company
Wes Moore
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Nadine Pinede
Finishing Line Press
Sara Bronin
Foundation Press
Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
HarperBusiness
E.J. Dionne
Bloomsbury USA
Katharine K. Wilkinson
Oxford University Press
Explores the faith-based efforts which are emerging and strengthening to address the problem of climate change.
Bonnie St. John (California & Trinity 1986) and her daughter Darcy Deane
Center Street
Explores the qualities that motivate some of the world's most powerful women. Through engaging interchanges, the authors discover commonly held values, behaviours, and attitudes of female leaders.
Michael Sandel (Massachusetts & Balliol 1975)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Considers a significant ethical question regarding the proper role of markets in a democratic society and asks how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy.
Blackmail and Extortion of LGBT People in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ryan Thoreson (North Dakota & Hertford 2007), Co-editor
Johannesburg, South Africa
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Antiquated laws against same-sex sexual activity as well as deeply ingrained social stigma result in the all-too-frequent targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Africa for blackmail and extortion, said the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) in a report launched today.
The report, Nowhere to Turn: Blackmail and Extortion of LGBT People in Sub-Saharan Africa, illustrates how LGBT Africans are made doubly vulnerable by the criminalization of homosexuality and the often-violent stigmatization they face if their sexuality is revealed. Based on research from 2007 to the present, the volume features articles and research by leading African activists and academics on the prevalence, severity and impact of these human rights violations on LGBT people in Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe.
Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your career.
Clayton M. Christensen
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Business Review
Christian Campbell (Commonwealth Caribbean and Balliol, 2002)
Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
Jeff Shesol
Karl Marlantes
John Nagl
Washington, D.C.
Joint Force Quarterly
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof (OR & Magdalen '83) and Sheryl WuDunn
Washington Post book reviewer, Carolyn See, finds "Half the Sky" one of the most important books she has ever reviewed. For more information on the movement sparked by this book, see http://www.halftheskymovement.org/
Leaving Home, Coming Back
Reynolds Price (North Carolina & Merton, '55)
A Soldier's Education
Craig Mullaney
A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow.
One haunting afternoon on Losano Ridge in Afghanistan, Captain Craig Mullaney and his platoon were caught in a deadly firefight with Al Qaeda fighters when a message came over the radio: one of his soldiers had been killed in action.
Mullaney’s education had been relentlessly preparing him for this moment. The four years he spent at West Point and the harrowing test of Ranger School readied him for a career in the Army. His subsequent experience as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford couldn’t have been further from the Army and his working class roots, and yet the unorthodox education he received there would be surprisingly relevant as a combat leader. Years later, after that unforgettable experience in Afghanistan, he would return to the United States to teach history to future Navy and Marine Corps officers at the Naval Academy. He had been in their position once, and he had put his education to the test. How would he use his own life-changing experience prepare them?
The Unforgiving Minute is the extraordinary story of one soldier’s singular education. From a hilarious plebe’s-eye view of the author’s West Point experience to the demanding leadership crucible of Ranger School’s swamps and mountains, to a two-year whirlwind of scintillating debate, pub crawls, and romance at Oxford, Mullaney’s winding path to the battlegrounds of Afghanistan was unique and remarkable. Despite all his preparation, the hardest questions remained. When the call came to lead his platoon into battle and earn his soldiers’ salutes, would he be ready? Was his education sufficient for the unforgiving minutes he’d face? A fascinating account of an Army captain’s unusual path through some of the most legendary seats of learning straight into a brutal fight with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, The Unforgiving Minute is, above all, an unforgettable portrait of a young soldier grappling with the weight of his hard-earned knowledge while coming to grips with becoming a man.
Samuel Shem (Stephen J. Bergman, MA & Balliol '66)
Walter Isaacson (LA & Pembroke '74)
David L. Boren (OK & Balliol '63) presents a timely reminder of how fragile America's future is.
A novel by John Edgar Wideman (PA & New '63)
Timely commentary on troubled relations between American and the Middle East by Jared Cohen (CA & St. Johns '04)
Jonah R. Lehrer (NY & Wolfson '03)
A bold notion that's built on remembrance of things future.
Wesley K. CLark (AR & Magdalen '66)
Clark reflects on life in the military
Novel by Edwin M. Yoder (NC & Jesus '56)
Mary Whipple writes a full length review and gives this new book a five star rating.
Robert B. Reich (NH & University '68) writes about the triumph of capitalism and the decline of democracy
Former labor secretary Reich urges us to rebalance the roles of business and government. Power, he writes, has shifted away from us in our capacities as citizens and toward us as consumers and investors.
Ian Klaus (MO & Jesus '01)
Ian chronicles his experience teaching English language and US history in Arbil, Iraqi Kurdistan during 2005.
10-Point Plan for Universal National Service
Richard Stengel (NY 7 Christ CHurch '77)
Today people see volunteering not as a form of public service but as an antidote for it. This is not a recipe for keeping a republic. What is needed is a universal national service.
Atul Gawande (OH & Balliol '87) authors Better
Dr. Gawande explores through a series of stories how success in medicine is assessed and achieved.
Race and The Rhodes Scholarship
Jack C. Zoeller
The American Oxonian
Andrew Zawacki
VA & University, ’94
Christopher Leslie Brown
Ryan Sawyer
Idaho & Exeter, ’95
Thomas Rowe
Michigan & Balliol, ’64
Michael Skolnik
AZ & Magdalen, ’64
Christopher Brown
(Maryland/ DC & Balliol, '90)
John Fanestil
NH & Magdalen, '83
Clark Ervin
Texax & St. Catherine's, '80
co-authored by Robin Russin
Robin Russin and William Missouri Downs
Wyoming & Corpus Christi, ’79
Jahan Ramazani
Virginia; New College, '81
Andrew Savitz
Maryland/ DC & New College, '75
Robert Rotberg
NJ & University, ’57