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• The Chronicle of Higher Education published an in-depth profile of Anthony Abraham Jack, author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students.
• Artemy Kalinovsky, author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, wrote in the New York Times about the lessons that the United States can learn, in 2019, from the Soviets’ protracted 1989 withdrawal from Afghanistan; in the Washington Post, he observed the Putin administration’s attempts to “create a past that is usable” out of Soviet Russia’s embarrassing defeat.
• On the Intelligence Squared podcast, David Wootton, author of Power, Pleasure, and Profit, examined the four centuries of Western thought—from Machiavelli to Madison—that led to the pursuit of success as the ultimate goal in today’s society.

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February 14: Conceived in Freedom, Dedicated to Women’s History: An Appreciation of Anne Firor Scott

Historian and activist Anne Firor Scott, who helped pioneer and advance the field of women’s history, passed away on February 5. Susan Ware, whose forthcoming book Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote is dedicated to Anne, honors her dear friend…