Public Affairs

Emma Gilligan is the co-founder of the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine and a recipient of the Institute for the Study of Genocide Book Award. She’s studied the extreme violations of human rights that occurred during the war in Chechnya as well as international human rights movements. In her book The Future and You […]

During the American Revolution women banded together into militias, negotiated treaties, acted as spies and even fought beside their husbands. In her book. Denise Kiernan seeks out the stories of these women.

The myth of the welfare queen vilified women caregivers who dropped out of the paid workforce. But our civilization can’t function without womens’ unpaid caregiving. In her book, Carolyn McConnell looks at the historic roots and current impacts of this system.

Could we stop the destruction of the environment by curtailing our consumption? In his book, J. B. MacKinnon examines how our insatiable appetite for consumer goods is at the heart of every environmental problem.