NAS Member Publications

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 John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy this week, Exploring the Enduring Questions, (May 13, 2010). Professor Krauss’s recent scholarly publications include “Retributive Damages” and the Death of Private Ordering, 158 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 167 (2010) and [with J. Kidd] “The Collateral Source Rule: Explanation and Defense”, 48 Louisville Law Review 1 (2010). Among his recent magazine op-eds are the following: 

•          “What Do Muslim Nations Think about Terrorists?” American Thinker, February 23, 2010
•          “Saudi Arabia: Spoilt Child of the Middle East,” American Thinker, Jan. 5, 2010
•          “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 (Baylor University Press, 2010). 

Royal Skousen, president of NAS’s Utah affiliate, has published The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text (Yale University Press, 2009). This new edition is based on 21 years of Skousen’s work as editor of the Book of Mormon critical text project, and includes about 600 corrections that have never appeared in any standard edition of the Book of Mormon; about 250 of these changes affect the text's meaning. This new edition has been reformatted in sense-lines rather than in paragraphs or verses, making the text much more logical and easier to read. 

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 (Lexington Books), 2009. Professor Allen wrote the chapter “Moving from Diversity to Inclusion: The Way Forward,” in Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story by Carol M. Allen, (Lexington Books, 2008). 

Sean Benson published Shakespearean Resurrection: The Art of Almost Raising the Dead (Duquesne University Press, 2009). 

Jan Blits, president of NAS’s Delaware affiliate, has published a book, New Heaven, New Earth: Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra (Lexington Books, 2009), and an article, "Hidden (and Not-So-Hidden) New Threats to Faculty Governance,” in the AAUP’s new Journal of Academic Freedom (Vol 1, 2010). NAS has also noted this article in our comments on the inaugural issue of the AAUP journal here. 

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. (University of Delaware Press, 2010) 

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 (SyracuseUniversity Press, 2000. Paperback, 2008) “Deeply moving, rich with information and insight." 

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 (University of Washington Press, 2009). In 2010 his 1965 book Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill was reissued by Routledge (UK). 

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 (Thibodaux, LA: Chicory Bloom Press). Brosman has been called “one of the great metaphysicians of our time and place.” She intends to publish another book in 2011 and a subsequent one in 2012. Brosman is Poetry Editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

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 Wellington’s marches and battles in the pursuit of Napoleon’s armies.” Dr. Bluth has also published, with S.R. McNeal, Update On Space: Volume I (1981), which comprises eight essays by pioneering engineers and scientists who built the Space Shuttle and the Space Station. It includes Krafft Ehricke, the creator of the Centaur Rocket and author of the concept of the "Extraterrestrial Imperative," which is especially relevant in light of the current debate over manned space flight and the return to the Moon. It is out of print, but available from Amazon.com. and used bookstores. 

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.