Ayesha Jalal

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• Eli Cook, author of The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life, wrote at the Atlantic about how money became “the measure of everything.”
• On India’s NDTV, Upinder Singh, author of Political Violence in Ancient India, deconstructed the prevalent myth of India’s nonviolent past which, she argues, was in part created by Gandhi and Nehru.
• On WNYC’s The Takeaway, Mehrsa Baradaran, author of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, explained how the myths of the free market fail black communities.
• Cass Sunstein, author of Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide discussed the fragmentation of American society, virtuous extremism, the limits of free speech, and other topics on Sam Harris’s podcast Waking Up.

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October 11: “Genius Grants” for Sunil Amrith and Viet Thanh Nguyen

Among the twenty-four members of the 2017 class of MacArthur Fellows—recipients of the so-called “Genius Grant”—are two recent HUP authors: Sunil Amrith, whose Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants we published in 2013, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of 2016’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Here’s the MacArthur Foundation’s clip on Amrith, who was recognized for “illustrating the role of centuries of transnational migration in the present-day social and cultural dynamics of South and Southeast Asia”: And their spot on Nguyen, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer,…