October 26, 2020
Punishment Without Crime author Alexandra Natapoff publishes an op-ed in the Washington Post: “Americans are hungry and desperate. California shouldn’t respond by cracking down on food theft.”
October 26, 2020
Punishment Without Crime author Alexandra Natapoff publishes an op-ed in the Washington Post: “Americans are hungry and desperate. California shouldn’t respond by cracking down on food theft.”
September 12, 2020
Daniel Dennett praises Joseph Henrich’s THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD in his review for the New York Times:
“[An] engagingly written, excellently organized and meticulously argued book… An extraordinarily ambitious book, along the lines of Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’...but going much farther…& wielding data points from world history, anthropology, economics, game theory, psychology & biology.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/books/review/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-joseph-henrich.html
September 07, 2020
Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the World reviewed in the Atlantic:
“Toppling the accomplishments of Western civilization off their great-man platforms, [Henrich] erases their claim to be monuments to rationality. Everything we think of as a cause of culture is really an effect of culture, including us.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-henrich-weird-people/615496/
July 21, 2020
James Fallows praises David Litt’s Democracy In One Book or Less in the Atlantic:
“If you’re looking for a wry, quickly readable, yet informed and edgy point about the same topic [America’s governing problems], I highly recommend Democracy In One Book or Less, by David Litt.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2020/07/three-guides-next-america/614284/
July 06, 2020
Behavioral Scientist features THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD by Joseph Henrich in its latest round-up of books to look out for.
https://behavioralscientist.org/behavioral-scientists-summer-book-list-2020/
June 19, 2020
NPR writes a glowing review of David Litt’s Democracy in One Book or Less:
“Litt refreshingly debunks myths about our founders, pointing up false narratives and warped historical perceptions….A no-nonsense guide for how we, the people, can fix ourselves.”
June 19, 2020
David Litt, author of Democracy in One Book or Less, writes an op-ed for TIME Magazine:
“A single state or federal law could make voter registration automatic, removing a small part of the racism embedded in America’s political process.”
June 14, 2020
The Guardian interviews David Litt, author of Democracy in One Book or Less:
“The Skywalker window: what Democrats must do to destroy Trump’s Death Star.”
June 12, 2020
PUNISHMENT WITHOUT CRIME author and law professor Alexandra Natapoff talks to NPR All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro re: Misdemeanor Offenses And Racism In The Criminal System.
May 18, 2020
David Litt’s Democracy in One Book or Less is #2 on Elle’s list, “23 Books That Will Put You In A Good Mood, Guaranteed”:
“Remarkably prescient & applicable. It’s rare to feel good about the way things are going, but Litt’s book will get you there.”
https://www.elle.com/culture/books/g31667192/books-to-cheer-you-up/
May 12, 2020
Economist Tyler Cowen praises Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People In the World:
“That is the new 655 pp. book by Joseph Henrich, due out September 8, and yes it is ‘an event’. The subtitle is ‘How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar & Particularly Prosperous’ & that is indeed 1 of the very most important questions in all of social science…Obviously recommended & you will be hearing more about this both from me & from others.”