I'm a recent convert to the work of Brené Brown. After years of focusing on such things as shame and vulnerability, she has flipped the hierarchy and dealt with leadership in her most recent book with its intriguing title, Dare to Lead. What's unusual about the book is that she does not focus on traditional forms in which I exert leadership over you. Instead, she explores how I lead with you but also how I lead within myself. For all of those reasons, it is a book worth reading.
Chip Hauss2018-10-08T15:56:30+00:00
Because I include a chapter on Germany in my comparative politics textbook, I'm always looking for insightful books on the long-term legacy of the Nazi years. So, when I saw a review of Nora Krug's Belonging (simultaneously published as Heimat in German), I immediately bought it for two reasons. First, Krug (born 1977) is a generation removed from the Nazi experience. Still, she is obsessed about its impact, especially on her family. Second, Krug teaches illustration at Parsons School of Design, and the reviews said the images were as valuable as the prose. They were right.
Chip Hauss2018-10-01T15:05:40+00:00
I have been thinking a lot about higher eduction these days, because I'm increasingly unhappy about the state of things these days. Then, I spent a weekend at Oberlin planning my fiftieth reunion and came away quite excited about some of the interesting things they are doing. So, I decided to go back and reread Kevin Carey's book, The End of College, which had helped strengthen my grumpiness when I read it three years ago when it came out.
Chip Hauss2018-09-24T13:56:37+00:00
Over the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time reading books by business school professors who wrote for popular audiences and raised issues of interest to peacebuilding and/or comparative politics. Sometimes, the connections weren’t always obvious. They certainly were in the case of Dolly Chugh, The Person You Mean To Be. In many ways, hers is typical of this kind of book in that she explores personal shortcomings that keep us from reaching our fullest potential.
Chip Hauss2018-09-17T14:54:08+00:00
Steven Johnson is one of my favorite writers. Over the years, he has gotten me to rethink paradigm shifts (they happen in a more piecemeal fashion than I used to believe) and evolution (we can plan at some of our mental—if not our physical—evolution as a species). So, I read Farsighted the day it arrived on my Kindle.
Chip Hauss2018-09-10T15:14:44+00:00
The same political polarization that grips the nation has hit American college campuses, including most of the elite schools that produce a disproportionate share of our country's leaders. In this provocative new book, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt explore some of its contours, causes, and consequences. It is provocative precisely because it goes way beyond university life to address broader issues involving everything from the way we raise our children to broader polarization that has only gotten more intense than it was when they finished the book. I do not agree with everything they say, but the book is a must-read for anyone interested in the fate of American higher education and society, both of which have been at the heart of my life since I was a student in the differently polarized 1960s and 1970s.
Chip Hauss2018-09-03T18:03:54+00:00
Like many progressives who came of age in the 1960s, I'm struggling to figure out why we haven't made more progress on race relations in my adult lifetime. Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility helps us do so by showing why whites have a hard time discussing race, seeing their role in perpetuating inequality, and how we could break ourselves out of that logjam.
Chip Hauss2018-08-13T15:19:36+00:00
If you hate meetings, this is a great book to help make the meetings (and other gatherings you attend) more interesting and useful.
Chip Hauss2018-08-06T19:13:01+00:00
Hans Rosling’s Factfulness is a book all social scientists should read because it tools about how our failure to see the real data on development had led to political mistake after political mistake
Chip Hauss2018-07-30T15:21:52+00:00
Thinking the Unithinkable To be honest, I’ve been involved with this project almost from its inception. I met Chris Langdon [...]
Chip Hauss2018-07-08T13:23:44+00:00
The best book on Mexican politics and society I've read in years.
Chip Hauss2018-06-24T12:30:01+00:00
Teaching With Tenderness made me rethink everything I did in the classroom and what I still do as a facilitator and mentor.
Chip Hauss2018-06-03T21:17:39+00:00
Healing from Hate explores radical extremism through a gendered lens.
Chip Hauss2018-05-21T13:40:53+00:00
I Feel You Empathy is one of the “hot topics” many of us peacebuilders are focusing on today. It’s not [...]
Chip Hauss2018-05-11T17:18:59+00:00
How Contentious Politics can help us understand peacebuilding better.
Chip Hauss2018-04-30T14:56:28+00:00
Benjamin Madley American Genocide I would never have heard about—let alone read—Benjamin Madley’s American Genocide if I hadn’t been sitting [...]
Chip Hauss2018-04-23T13:06:42+00:00
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism Bob Kuttner has been on my radar screen since I was a college student when [...]
