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Justin Grosslight

Book Review: Up Close and Personal? — “The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us”

With journalistic flair, The Years That Matter Most brilliantly shows how, in terms of college opportunities, the scales of justice tilt in favor of the wealthy.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: ACT, Admissions, College, College Board, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, How College Makes or Breaks Us, Justin Grosslight, Mobility, Paul Tough, SAT, The Years the Matter Most

Book Review: A Troubling yet Timely Screed — America’s Debilitating “Meritocracy Trap”

Though its prose veers into academic rough patches, the volume does what it sets out to do, brilliantly portraying how the delusive demon of meritocracy has led America into its current socioeconomic quagmire.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Daniel Markovits, Meritocracy, The Meritocracy Trap

Book Review: “The Future is Asian” — Challenging Western Ideology

Marshaling statistics, maps, scholarly literature, news articles, and reports, The Future is Asian cogently dramatizes the reasons behind Asia’s re-ascendance to economic, political, and cultural primacy.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Belt and Road, China, Globalism, Justin Grosslight, Singapore, The Future is Asian: Commerce Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century

Book Review: More than Meets the Eye — “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge”

Readers interested in early modern science, Renaissance studies, or Galileo will undoubtedly savor this trailblazing work of history.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Galileo Galilei, Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge, Gianfrancesco Sagredo, history of science, Renaissance, University of Chicago

Book Review: How Science Fared in the Enlightenment — At the Halle Orphanage

Kelly Joan Whitmer does two things very well: she tells a vibrant tale of intellectual reform and shines a light on less prominent historical actors in the history of science.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts Tagged: August Hermann Francke, Early Enlightenment, Eclecticism, Kelly Joan Whitmer, Observation, Pietism, Scientific Community, The Halle Orphanage

Book Review: In the Dutch Golden Age – When Science Becomes Profitable

Cutting edge scholar Dániel Margócsy has penned a fascinating study about the early collisions of art, profit, and science.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Commercial Visions, Dániel Margócsy, Dutch History, History of Medicine, history of science, Trade

Book Review: A Whirlwind Journey from Memory to Reason — Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

“Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 17th-century, England, English Virtuosi and Early Modern Science, history of science, history of the book, Justin Grosslight, Notebooks, Richard Yeo

Author Interview: Scholar Avner Ben-Zaken — Crafting a Unified History of Science

Intellectual frameworks such as “the rise of Europe,” “the decline of the East,” or “the clash of civilizations,” tell us more about the laziness of the human mind than they do about history.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Avner Ben-Zaken, Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean 1560-1660, history of science, Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism

Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

“Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way we look at the past and the present.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts, World Books Tagged: Avner Ben-Zaken, cross-cultural, history of science, Johns Hopkins University Press, Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism

Book Review: Females on the Frontier of Medicine — Healers in Early Modern Germany

In her groundbreaking study, Tufts University professor Alisha Rankin essentially revises the history of medicine by showing that women, presumed to be marginal in the development early modern medicine, were actually major players.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Alisha Rankin, history of science, Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany, University of Chicago Press

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