“Harvey Mansfield is a Harvard treasure, a one-man antidote to liberal complacency.” – Michael J. Sandel Which way, modern man? Taught for decades to rapt classrooms, Harvey C. Mansfield’s legendary Harvard course on political philosophy has informed and influenced generations of public thought. Now in his nineties, Mansfield captures the essence of his course in The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: A history of the birth of modern political philosophy, beginning with Niccolò Machiavelli and the imperative to manipulate the brute facts of the world in service of interests—something he calls “rational control.” Is it time to revisit reason? Keep reading: tinyurl.com/mutpdcbe “An unblinkingly courageous social commentator, Harvey Mansfield is a superb teacher who has fostered a generation of influential students.” – Francis Fukuyama

Next up on the 2026 #CundillHistoryPrize shortlist is ‘John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law’, by Beth Lew-Williams, published by @Harvard_Press 'Deeply researched and profoundly compelling” - Steven Hahn cundillprize.com/news/the-20…

Latest Loeb addendi. (Replacing the 16 vols of the Moralia will be no mean feat, @Harvard_Press!)

The secrecy around nuclear proliferation may be incompatible with democracy, the documentarian Jon Else suggests in his new book. @ScottWStern on “Frenchman Flat” and the crucial need for transparency: theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…

!!🚨 Event Tomorrow 🚨!! "How do US presidents cultivate public support for their foreign policy agendas, which so often start out running counter to public opinion?" Join @CatoFP on tomorrow at 12 p.m. EST for a book forum with @JustinTLogan, @StimsonCenter's @EmmaMAshford, and @VTPSCI's Chad Levinson to discuss Levinson's new @Harvard_Press book, "The President’s Echo System: How Foreign Policy Is Sold to Americans." Lunch to follow! Register below: cato.org/events/presidents-e…

We're launching this incredible book into the world—a study that pulls together evidence of Jewish presence on the territory of today's Ukraine for centuries from several languages around the world. It took decades for this book to be researched, written, and published, and now it's here. Don't miss this important conversation about the history of (proto-)Ukrainian-Jewish encounter and interaction tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, at 12 pm EDT via Zoom! See the event page at the link in the next post of this thread for more info on how to register and join the book launch. Copublished with @HarvardCJS, distributed by @Harvard_Press / @HarvardUPLondon Published by @huribooks #huribooks #ukrainianhistory #ukrainianjewish FYI @ukrainianjewish @ukrainianjewish @BostonJCC @haaretzjw @WorldJewishCong @AJCGlobal @jfederations @JNFUSA @theJCPA @TheJQR @jewish_studies @EJJS_Journal @Brill_Jewish @HJudaic @JuedStudien @ADL @Official_SCN @TimesofIsrael @JewishChron @haaretzcom @jdforward @ynetnews @JewishCurrents

🚨 Upcoming Event 🚨 "How do US presidents cultivate public support for their foreign policy agendas, which so often start out running counter to public opinion?" Join @CatoFP next week on Wednesday, September 16th at 12 p.m. EST for a book forum with @JustinTLogan, @StimsonCenter's @EmmaMAshford, and @VTPSCI's Chad Levinson to discuss Levinson's new @Harvard_Press book, "The President’s Echo System: How Foreign Policy Is Sold to Americans." Lunch to follow! Register below: cato.org/events/presidents-e…

The Book of Genocides, written by award-winning author and Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Dana Mashoian Walrath, is a haunting graphic narrative that compels readers to confront the most harrowing chapters of human history.

The most joyous unboxing of my life! The paperback of Make Your Own Job is out today, with a very special new cover. You can find a copy wherever you like to buy your books.

Many thanks to @AdrianWoolfson for his review in @ScienceMagazine -- the first full review of "Curved Air". The book is already shipping in the US hup.harvard.edu/books/978067… ... while the UK launch is now early October. @Harvard_Press @AevitasCreative

picked up this book purely bc I thought this cover looked hard and I have 0 regrets. gotta do this judging-a-book-by-its-cover thing more often

Off to Ireland for much-needed R&R. This time the culprit that got me delayed 30 minutes at security was once again Aristotle, but clearly his (Meta)physics are alarming and need to be swabbed for dangerous toxins, especially when their owner has Aristotle on her baseball cap

Adding 4 more Loebs to my collection from today’s book haul at @loganberrybooks. I’m now up to 44 total Loeb Classical Library volumes.

Welcome to Boston, @APSAtweets. Come visit us at the @Harvard_Press booth and get one of these suspiciously, ridiculously, unbelievably, rashly priced hardcovers ($10) and paperbacks ($5) before they are gone. Also, meet 2 of our editors, @pompqmoq and @Trevor_Perri.

A first sighting in the wild - and plenty of them, so no one need miss out! Thank you @waterstones

How did women of African, Malagasy, Native American, and South Asian descent challenge and transform the early French empire? I spoke to Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, FLESH AND TOIL for the @JHIdeas podcast @Harvard_Press @DukeHistoryDept jhiblog.org/2026/09/02/by-fl…

Priests too! More than half of my Loeb collection comes from the library of Fr. Hugh Bode.

We're excited to announce the exceptional 8 titles chosen for the 2026 #CundillHistoryPrize shortlist! Read the full list here: cundillprize.com/news/the-20… The 2026 Shortlist "uncovers histories that have been forgotten and silenced." — Emily Greenwood

More from me — and yet more here from @Harvard_Press hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…

RT @PeterHotez: Just received my copy of this great new book from @Harvard_Press written by @KevinADavies who is the editor of @CRISPRjourn…

@Princeton historian Beth Lee-Williams used new technology to identify more than 5,000 laws in the U.S. that regulated the lives of Chinese people between 1850-1920. @Harvard_Press