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• Kirsten Swinth’s Feminism’s Forgotten Fight was examined in a Weekly Standard piece on whether second-wave feminism left motherhood behind.
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• In the New York Times, Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, invoked Paul Hanebrink’s A Specter Haunting Europe to argue that “cultural Marxism” seems to be “a version of [last century’s] Judeobolshevik myth updated for a new age.”

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November 15: On Publishing French Philosopher Bruno Latour

The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy article on the influence of Bruno Latour's work on science. We got to thinking about Harvard University Press's long history publishing Latour's work. We're celebrating University Press Week with a speech given by Latour's long time editor Lindsay Waters when Latour won the Holberg Prize, which captures the some of the early memories of Latour's influence on HUP. #ReadUp This was delivered by Lindsay Waters at dinner in honor of the Holberg Prize Laureate Bruno Latour hosted by the Norwegian Government, 5 June 2013, Hakon’s Hall, Bergen I come from Norwegian America, the Upper Midwest, happy now at last to be in the home of the culture of Ibsen and trolls, the culture we celebrated in Mi…