Essay Comedy Split Personalities By Andrew McConnell Stott Is it a condition of comic genius to be always wrestling with demons? More
Essay The City City of Seeds By Daniel Mason With an influx of people from all over the world, the city can become a hothouse for foreign flora. More
Essay Time The Grand Illusion By Jim Holt Does time have a future? Yes, but how much of a future depends on what the ultimate fate of the cosmos turns out to be. More
Essay Communication Tape Delay By Madeline Miller How we misread Virgil for two thousand years, and what made it possible for a small group of scholars to figure it out. More
Essay The Future The Next Future By John Crowley Any prediction about what is to come runs the risk of being more about the present than the future. More
Essay States of War The Persian Way of War By Tom Holland Unlike the Greeks, Xerxes viewed war as more than a simple matter of strategy. Rather, it was a means of flaunting global mastery. More
Essay Philanthropy Treasure in Heaven By Peter Brown St. Augustine and other early Christians challenged the Roman idea of charity by invoking the ultimate authority—God. More