Essay Ways of Learning Academic Virtue By Stanley Fish What is the job of higher education and what is it that those who teach in colleges and universities are trained and paid to do? More
Essay Swindle & Fraud Rogue Wounds By Daniel Mason Playing ill or feigning madness has been a con for hundreds of years. But can a fake sickness become a real sickness? More
Essay States of Mind The Person in the Ape By Ferris Jabr A history of humans trying and failing to understand the minds of apes. More
Essay Magic Shows W.B. Yeats, Magus By Jamie James For William Butler Yeats, poetry was a kind of magic. More
Essay Arts & Letters Beauty Is Shoe By Wendy Steiner Is the model a subject, or is the subject a model? More
Essay Medicine Oath of Office By Richard Selzer A conversation between Richard Selzer & Peter Josyph on the origins of the Hippocratic Oath. More
Essay Politics The Great Rift By Jeffrey Gettleman Jeffrey Gettleman on the 2007 Kenyan election crisis, and why in Kenya all politics is tribal. More
Essay Food Death in the Pot By Deborah Blum Before the regulation of the food industry, there was very little preventing us from eating poison. More
