Essay Epidemic What Preparations Are Due? By Travis Chi Wing Lau Daniel Defoe attempted to teach a nation how to live in a world where the next crisis is always closer than it appears. 8.3.3 More
Essay Foreigners The Foreign Spell By Pico Iyer To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but it is also to be continually surprised. More
Essay Spies Rise of the Drones By Rudolph Herzog Drone technology spans a century’s worth of science fiction and military research. More
Essay Fashion Crusader Chic By Danielle Peterson Searls Upon returning home, Crusaders brought with them styles that would upset Europe’s fashion hierarchy. 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 Religion Freedom by Necessity By Terry Eagleton At the heart of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is a religious set piece in which Jesus is questioned on his return to Earth. More
Essay Eros Affairs of State By William Rosen How the improbable marriage of an actress, courtesan, and daughter of an animal trainer to a Byzantine emperor dramatically changed the course of European history. More
Essay Celebrity Hatching Monsters By Charles Baxter Lessons in fame from P.T. Barnum’s autobiography. 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
