We recently put out a call to NAS members to let us know if they have published books, articles, or poems in the last year. We'd like to highlight our members' work in our e-newsletter. A number of people have responded to this call and we drew attention to their writing in the newsletter. Those featured below have granted us permission to name them as members of NAS. If you are a member, let us know about your publications by emailing [email protected] or by calling 609-683-7878. To receive our email newsletter, click here.
NAS board member Michael Krauss has an essay at the
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“What Do Muslim Nations Think about Terrorists?” American Thinker, February 23, 2010
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“Saudi Arabia: Spoilt Child of the Middle East,” American Thinker, Jan. 5, 2010
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“General Motors’ Game-Changing Bid?” Forbes, Sep. 17, 2009
- “Mexican Standoff on Second Amendment,” Investors Business Daily, July 7, 2009
Daniel Ritchie, The Fullness of Knowing: Modernity and Postmodernity from Defoe to Gadamer (
Royal Skousen, president of NAS’s
Michael Burlingame’s book Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) was awarded the $50,000 Lincoln Prize. The Atlantic Monthly ranked it as one of the five best books of 2009.
William Barclay Allen, Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of Harriet Beecher Stowe (
Sean Benson published Shakespearean Resurrection: The Art of Almost Raising the Dead (Duquesne University Press, 2009).
Jan Blits, president of NAS’s
Sam Bluefarb authored "The Human Stain: A Satiric Tragedy of the Politically Incorrect," in Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer, eds. Ben Siegel and Jay Halio. (
Stephen A. Book, “Combining Probabilistic Estimates to Reduce Uncertainty,” Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Summer 2009), pages 47-54.
A paperback edition of Egon Balas’ memoir has recently been published. Elie Wiesel called Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey through Fascism and Communism (
George Bornstein has a forthcoming book, The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish From 1845 to 1945, from Harvard University Press in January 2011. His most recent op-ed is "Census Obsession with Race Misses the Mark," in The Detroit News (April 7, 2010, p. 15A). This piece led to a radio interview about census categories on the nationally syndicated Mitch Albom Show, WJR Radio Detroit, on April 15, 2010.
In 2009, Edward Alexander authored Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe:A Literary Friendship (Transaction Publishers, 2009) and edited Robert B. Heilman: His Life in Letters, ed. Edward Alexander, Richard Dunn, Paul Jaussen (
Peter Ahrensdorf has published Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy: Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles' Theban Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He also contributed a chapter on Homer to a forthcoming book, Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle, Edited by Timothy Burns, Lexington Books. The book is due out in July 2010.
Richard C. Brown is the author of a book critiquing the “sociology of scientific knowledge,” Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed? A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science (World Scientific, 2009).
Jack Bunzel’s two most recent op-ed essays are "Is Obama’s Promise of ‘Real Change’ in Trouble?" in the San Francisco Chronicle, December 22, 2009, and "For Barack Obama, It All Boils Down to the Power of Golf," San Jose Mercury News, March l4, 20l0.
Roger W. Barnett published a book last year, Navy Strategic Culture: Why the Navy Thinks Differently (Navy Institute Press, 2009).
French scholar Catharine Savage Brosman is a poet whose collection Breakwater was published by Mercer University Press in 2009. In 2010 her poetry appeared (31 pp.) in a chapbook under the title Trees in a Park (
Selected Older Works
B.J. Bluth’s Marching With Sharpe: What it Was Like to Fight in Wellington's Army (Collins 2002) has been called “a spellbinding story about the experiences and events in a soldier's life, almost 200 years ago.” The book is “filled with photographs of modern recreations of
Richard Bonine is author of the satire Alice In Washington (Iuniverse, 1999) and the essay “Suicide Pact: Islam and the Intelligentsia,” published at Bonine’s website, http://tacitsuicidepact.com.