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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 3h

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 21h

“A gripping look at the hidden infrastructure that binds the modern world—and the chaos that follows when it snaps.”

Kirkus reviews @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social’s THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES, on sale next week (and available for preorder now)!
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES | Kirkus Reviews

Diving into a world of perils.

www.kirkusreviews.com

Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 5d

“I really do believe that we are in the midst of seeing, or perhaps more accurately, not seeing a lost generation of Black students at elite colleges.”

🎧 Justin Driver joined @dividedargument.bsky.social to talk about his new book THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Proust or Plato

Podcast Episode · Divided Argument · 10/03/2025 · 53m

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 5d

TODAY with @nysean.bsky.social!
3:30pm ET in-person & livestream 👇

GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 7d

Join the talk “Songs Beyond Borders: Thailand and Transnational Musical Connections” by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig to hear about the way that music features in their new books.

October 3 @ 3:30 pm EDT
tinyurl.com/4k7cen22

Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 6d

“I always try to read the best arguments for the opposing point of view, & Driver’s arguments in favor of affirmative action are the best I’ve read”

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION by Justin Driver, in his latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Incompetence Isn’t an Upgrade Over D.E.I.

www.nytimes.com

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 7d

Don't miss this excerpt from Samanth Subramanian's forthcoming book, THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES in the @theguardian.com Long Read

The book is on sale Oct 14 in the US (27 Nov in the UK) but available for preorder now--> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-we...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

www.theguardian.com

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 8d

"It’s a simple recipe, really: a scorching economic message delivered by political outsiders standing up to the powerful."

Tim Shenk, author of LEFT ADRIFT: What Happened to Liberal Politics, on the future of Democratic Party politics for @nytopinion.nytimes.com ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

www.nytimes.com

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 13d

“Why Live, animated by the Epstein’s clear passion, presents a stimulating introduction to a timeless topic.”

@wsj.com reviews Helen C. Epstein’s WHY LIVE
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

‘Why Live’ Review: A Different Epidemic

From indigenous island communities to the American heartland, suicide rates seem to spike when old ways of life are upended.

www.wsj.com

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 14d

“Because universities are understood to be forbidden from accessing racial data, black applicants are overwhelmingly incentivized to write essays that sound in racial woe.”

Don’t miss Justin Driver, author of THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, on Advisory Opinions👇
thedispatch.com/podcast/advi...

The Fall of Affirmative Action | Interview: Justin Driver

‘How do we want to be wrong?’

thedispatch.com

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Coming this January from CGR:

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER: Rebalancing the New World Order, by Finland's president, Alexander Stubb

On sale Jan 13, 2026 in the US
(and the same day in the UK with @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social!)

learn more & preorder now--> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr...

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report
Category: Non-fiction: Politics/Current Affairs September 18, 2025

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER By Alexander Stubb
Imprint: Columbia Global Reports, Biteback

President of the Republic of Finland Alexander Stubb's THE TRIANGLE OF POWER: REBALANCING THE NEW WORLD ORDER, making the case that the rebalancing of a new world order will happen through a triangle of power between the Global West, the Global East, and the Global South; if the Global West wants to maintain at least parts of the liberal world order, it needs to adopt an approach of values-based realism combined with a dignified foreign policy, to Nicholas Lemann and Jimmy So at Columbia Global Reports, for publication in January 2026, by James Levine at Levine Greenberg Rostan (NA).

Rights also to Olivia Beattie at Biteback (UK), by Anna Carmichael at Abner Stein.

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 20d

Coming up next week!

Join Yale Law professor Justin Driver at Politics and Prose for a conversation about his new book, THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

🗓️ Thursday, September 25 / 7pm
📍Politics and Prose, Conn Ave

Learn more--> https://politics-prose.com/justin-driver

Politics and Prose and the American Constitution Society present Justin Driver
9/25 @ 7pm, P&P Conn Ave

with a photo of Justin Driver next to the book's cover image

Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 21d

In 2023, the Supreme Court killed affirmative action in SFFA v. Harvard.

With THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, Yale Law professor Justin Driver considers new paths for inclusion and equity in college admissions.

on sale now! https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-fall-of-affirmative-action

“This is, without exception, the single best volume in the library of books about affirmative action. The Fall of Affirmative Action warrants reading and rereading.”
—Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School

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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 22d

In his new book, the Yale law professor says colleges still have a “panoply” of options to recruit diverse student bodies within the confines of the Supreme Court ruling.

Affirmative action is over. What can replace it? Justin Driver has answers.

In his new book, the Yale law professor says colleges still have a “panoply” of options to recruit diverse student bodies within the confines of the Supreme Court ruling.

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 22d

Tonight in St. Louis!

Join Justin Driver at @stlcountylibrary.bsky.social for a conversation about his new book THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (on sale today!)

🗓️ 9/16 TONIGHT, 7pm
📍SLCL Clark Family Branch

learn more--> https://www.slcl.org/events/justin-driver

Justin Driver
St. Louis County Library
Tues. Sept. 16 / 7pm

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 22d

“Justin Driver’s compact and insightful new book appears at a time when the government’s approach to discrimination has shifted dramatically.”

@nytimes.com reviews Justin Driver’s THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (on sale today!)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

Affirmative Action Is Dead. What Should Universities Do Now?

www.nytimes.com

Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 22d

Happy pub day to Justin Driver’s THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education

“Without exception, the single best volume in the library of books about affirmative action” —Randall Kennedy

get your copy now--> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-fa...

Lots of copies of The Fall of Affirmative Action messily arranged on a table

Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 29d

Happy pub day to WHY LIVE: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic

What causes suicide epidemics—and how can we prevent them? In WHY LIVE, public health researcher Helen C. Epstein travels the world to find the answer.

Get your copy now--> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/why-live

Lots of copies of Why Live messily arranged on top of a table

Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · 29d

“I think that the nation has a lot of profound troubles right now. Too many Black students on elite college campuses is not among them.”

Justin Driver joined the Strict Scrutiny podcast to talk about his forthcoming book THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Lower Courts Punch Up

Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · 09/08/2025 · 1h 42m

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking forward to talking about music & Thailand with an ideal person to compare ideas with on this topic: @burrata.bsky.social , Oct 3 at 3:30 Eastern time, at NYU www.nysean.org/events/songs... (online option cc @xunlingau.bsky.social @columbiagr.bsky.social )

Songs Beyond Borders: Thailand and Transnational Musical Connections — New York Southeast Asia Network

Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. B...

www.nysean.org

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · Sep 3

We've started the post-Labor Day week off strong in the CGR office!

Early copies of THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World, by journalist Samanth Subramanian.

🛜 On sale Oct 14, but you can preorder right now:
globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-we...

stacks of copies of the book The Web Beneath the Waves, by Samanth Subramanian, some spine-out, some facing-out so you can see the full cover

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Sep 2

THE FALL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION is a masterpiece. Driver has written an unflinchingly fair, absolutely brilliant analysis of a vital issue you might think you understand but almost certainly don’t. Read it if you care about America’s future: tinyurl.com/4uznd4cc

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Sep 2

I've given talks about my new @columbiagr.bsky.social book at various places (including in Culver City at @wendemuseum.bsky.social), but this October 20 dual book launch with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow at @ucirvine.bsky.social will be my first in Orange County www.humanities.uci.edu/events/art-i...

The Art of the Interview and the Craft of the Profile: A UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public Book Launch

An in-person event, open to the public, no rsvp needed

www.humanities.uci.edu

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · Aug 22

"We've gone in so quickly with so few guardrails protecting people that I think we might be causing unnecessary harm with our new addition to gambling."

Jonathan Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about the risky rise of online sports betting
www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

We might be causing unnecessary harm with our new addiction to gambling, says 'Losing Big' author

Jonathan Cohen, ‘Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling’ author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss America's relationship with betting, why he believes it's a public health crisis particula...

www.cnbc.com

Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · Aug 14

What causes suicide epidemics—and how can we prevent them?

In WHY LIVE: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic, public health researcher Helen C. Epstein travels the world to find the answer.

on sale 9/9 but you can preorder now--> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/why-li...

“A beautifully written, deeply thought-provoking book on the relationship between suicide and social disruption. It sounds a warning for our times.”
-Mary Bassett, Harvard University, former NYC health commissioner

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Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · Aug 12

"What makes sports gambling today so fun is the seamlessness, the app design, the endless menu of betting options, mimicking the endless scroll phenomenon of social media."

🎧Jonathan Cohen joined Sean Illing on The Gray Area podcast to talk about LOSING BIG

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

America is losing big on sports betting

Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 08/11/2025 · 54m

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