In influential books, he questioned top-down government programs and extolled the power of the powerless, embracing a form of anarchism. By Trip Gabriel James C. Scott, one of the world’s most ...

James Campbell Scott was born in Mount Holly, N.J., on Dec. 2 ... so as to prepare.” James C. Scott, a scholar of political science whose groundbreaking books and research explored how subtle ...

A new book by Scott J. Shapiro, a law and philosophy professor ... Not to mention that hacking into the D.N.C.’s systems “was a standard act of espionage,” Shapiro writes, and espionage ...

“In Praise of Floods” (Yale), a study of rivers by the late political scientist James C. Scott ... Palisades reading a book called “In Praise of Fires.” But Scott doesn’t ignore how ...