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Fellows Wilson Brissett, Scott Nesbit, Chris Nichols, and Andrew Witmer

Fellows Chris Nichols, Scott Nesbit, Andrew Witmer, and Wilson Brissett are moving on to positions with the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Richmond, the Penn Humanities Forum, and the United States Air Force Academy. Listen to interviews with these fellows (by clicking on their names) in which they talk about their projects, time at the Institute, and future plans.

Recent Publications

The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust

Director Jennifer Geddes’s The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. As one reviewer writes, “This is a book that needs to be read and re-read by ‘the powers that be’—and the rest of us as well.”

Research Fellow Matthew Crawford has a book out this month from Penguin, Shop Class as Soulcraft. Read an excerpt from the New York Times Magazine and a review on Slate.

Shop Class as Soulcraft

The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right

Alumni fellow Jon Shields, now assistant professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, has a new book out with Princeton University Press, The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right. Read a review in the New York Times.

The Hedgehog Review (Order here)

The latest issue of The Hedgehog Review explores how teenagers use the internet, the new political engagement of young voters, the withering of adulthood, the creation and history of “adolescence,” and the emergence of a world youth culture.

FREE PREVIEW: read Director Joe Davis’s essay, “Adolescents and the Pathologies of the Achieving Self.” Other individual essays can be purchased for just $2 each, and the whole issue is just $12. Use our online order form.

The Hedgehog Review

2009 Books from IASC Faculty Fellows

Asher Biemann, Inventing New Beginnings: On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism (Stanford University Press).

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Talbot Brewer, The Retrieval of Ethics (Oxford University Press).

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Stephen White, The Ethos of a Late Modern Citizen (Harvard University Press).

IASC has proven an intellectually fertile place for me, beyond anything I could have anticipated.

—Matthew Crawford
Research Fellow

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Culture Notes

This section contains audios of interest from a variety of online sources.

On the Priority of Culture to Politics

James Davison Hunter

U of Montana President’s Lecture Series—April 6, 2009

Listen to a lecture given by Executive Director James Davison Hunter on decoupling “the public” from “the political.”

The Financial Crisis: Challenge and Opportunity

Patrick Deneen

IASC—May 9, 2009

Hear Patrick Deneen talk about the economy, embeddedness in communities, and moral language.

Interview with John Kiser, Adjunct Fellow

Iowa Public Radio—April 7, 2009

Listen to John Kiser discuss his book, Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader (1808–1883).

Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights

Abdulaziz Sachedina

IASC—April 1, 2009

University of Virginia Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina spoke to a group in New York City about interpretations of democracy and human rights in the Koran.